Abe, Naohito; Shiotani, Kyosuke - Research Center for Price Dynamics, Institute of … - 2012
On the basis of household-level scanner data (homescan) for Japan over a three-year period, we construct a household-level price index, and we investigate the causes of the differences in prices across households. As noted by Aguiar and Hurst (2007), large price differentials across households...