Although price dispersion remains a prominent feature of international and domestic markets, the development of e‐commerce has been increasingly promoting uniform pricing. Existing studies suggest that online competition, especially from Amazon, reduces price dispersion within individual...

The sudden demand spike for online grocery purchases during the Covid‐19 pandemic and supply bottlenecks caused by disrupted global value chains put immense pressure on prices. We analyze the prices of the largest German online grocers to test how these challenges affected prices during the...

Pricing-to-market (PTM) evidence in German sugar confectionery exports is examined, combining the original fixed-effects model of Knetter (1989) and an errorcorrection specification (ECM) at three frequency levels, to assess how neglecting time-series properties and the choice of frequency...

Each time the Euro starts appreciating, a discussion on how painful this might hit European exporters arises in media, making politician and economists work out the ways to mitigate possible shocks. Still, in his recent study, Verheyen (2013a) using aggregated European exports to the US as an...

Using aggregated EMU exports to the US as an example, VERHEYEN (2013a) showed, that in the long run exports react to exchange rate changes in a nonlinear way. This paper tests whether this holds true for agri-food exports as well. To address this question a partial sum decomposition approach and...

This paper presents empirical evidence on the interplay important topics of consumer price rigidity and market power in the German food retail industry. In particular, the analysis addresses the causal relationship between market structure - collusion - and pricing behaviour highlighted in the...

This paper investigates the impact of product differentiation on firm-specific and industry-wide cost pass-through in grocery retailing. We use attribute distance measures to model product differentiation based on a unique set of retail scanner data for ready-to-eat soup products in the Canadian...

Ziel dieser Arbeit ist eine vergleichende Untersuchung des Innovationsverhaltens im verarbeitenden Gewerbe anhand eines Querschnittsdatensatzes des Mannheimer Innovationspanels. Die Besonderheiten des Ernährungsgewerbes werden durch eine kombinierte Analyse von Innovationsinput- und...

In diesem Beitrag werden ökonomische Wirkungen einer staatlichen Förderung der Regionalvermarktung von Lebensmitteln untersucht. Zwei Arten von staatlichen Instrumenten werden dabei unterschieden. Zunächst wird eine zentral-regionale und/oder eine regionale Gemeinschaftswerbung für ein...