Theoretical work on price-setting behavior focuses on the single-product case while, in reality, a single price-setter sells many products. The authors use retail store-level multiproduct pricing data to learn about price dynamics. They find that, while the timing of a product's price changes is...

We find that while some individual price changes are indeed 'small', the average price change of different products within a store in any given month is not. Moreover, the smaller the price change of an individual product, the larger the average price change of the remaining products sold by the...

This paper analyzes the effects of inflation on the dispersion of prices, and other aspects of price behavior, using disaggregated data on prices of foodstuffs in Israel during 1978-84. The authors find that expected inflation has a stronger effect on intramarket price variability than...