The relationship between gasoline prices and the demand for vehicle fuel efficiency is important for environmental policy but poorly understood in the academic literature. We provide empirical evidence that automobile manufacturers price as if consumers respond to gasoline prices. We derive a...

Information frictions play a key role in an array of economic activities and are frequently incorporated into formal models as search costs. However, little is known about the underlying source of consumer search costs and how heterogeneous they are across consumers and markets. This paper...

I analyze the extent to which competitors adopt similar pricing strategies. Using an extensive panel data set, I find substantial heterogeneity in the price setting behavior of nearby competitors. The differences in strategy can be explained, in part, by the size of firms and relative...