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The price system, the adjustment of prices to changes in market conditions, is the primary mechanism by which markets function and by which the three most basic questions get answered: what to produce, how much to produce and for whom to produce. To the behaviour of price and price system,...
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We study the price rigidity of regular and sale prices, and how it is affected by pricing formats (i.e., pricing strategies). We use data from three large Canadian stores with different pricing formats (Every-Day-Low-Price, Hi-Lo, and Hybrid) that are located within a 1 km radius of each other....
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European Central Bank's Inflation Persistence Network. …
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The price system, the adjustment of prices to changes in market conditions, is the primary mechanism by which markets function and by which the three most basic questions get answered: what to produce, how much to produce and for whom to produce. To the behaviour of price and price system,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140549
The marketplace, along with its price system, is the single most important institution in a western‐style free enterprise economy. The ability of prices to adjust to changes in supply and demand conditions enables the market to function efficiently, and that ability lies behind the magical...
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European Central Bank's Inflation Persistence Network. …
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Inflation is painful, for firms, customers, employees, and society. But careful study of periods of hyperinflation …
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the small.” Furthermore, it turns out that inflation offers only a partial explanation for the finding. Indeed …, substantial proportion of the asymmetry remains unexplained, even after accounting for the inflation. For example, the asymmetry … holds also after excluding periods of inflation from the data, and even for products whose price had not increased. The …
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Although linearly interpolated series are often used in economics, little has been done to examine the effects of interpolation on time-series properties and on statistical inference. We show that linear interpolation of a trend stationary series superimposes a ‘periodic’ structure on the...
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We take advantage of a natural experiment to document an emergence of a new price ending that has the same effects as 9-endings. In January 2014, the Israeli parliament has passed a law prohibiting the use of non 0-ending prices. We find that one year after 9-ending prices have disappeared,...
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