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Macroeconomic Implications of Uniform Pricing
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2023 We compile a new database of grocery prices in Argentina. We find uniform pricing both within and across regions—i.e., prices almost do not vary within the stores of a chain.
Diego Daruich, J. Kozlowski
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The Gains from Input Trade with Heterogeneous Importers
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2018 Firms differ substantially in their participation in foreign input markets. We develop a methodology to measure the aggregate effects of input trade that takes such heterogeneity into account.
J. Blaum +4 more
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Minimum Wages, Productivity, and Reallocation
Social Science Research Network, 2023 IZA DP No. 16160 MAY 2023 Minimum Wages, Productivity, and Reallocation* We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data.
Mirja Haelbig +2 more
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International Economic Review, 2021 The large and growing industry of price comparison websites (PCWs) or ‘web aggregators’ is poised to benefit consumers by increasing competitive pricing pressure on firms by acquainting shoppers with more prices.
David Ronayne
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The (alleged) environmental and social benefits of dynamic pricing
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023 IZA DP No. 14846 NOVEMBER 2021 The (Alleged) Environmental and Social Benefits of Dynamic Pricing* This paper provides a cautionary tale about claiming environmental costs and benefits when justifying the use of public funds.
M. Harding +3 more
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New Facts on Consumer Price Rigidity in the Euro Area
American Economic Journal: MacroeconomicsUsing CPI microdata for 11 euro area countries over 2010–2019, we document new findings on consumer price rigidity in the euro area: (i) the average frequency of price changes is 12 percent; (ii) the distribution of price changes is highly dispersed ...
Erwan Gautier +13 more
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Trading Volume Shares and Market Quality: Pre- and Post- Zero Commissions
Journal of Empirical FinanceWe find that major retail brokers that eliminate commissions dramatically increase their market share of client assets. Using broker’s SEC Rule 606 reports, we find they increasingly routed orders to off-exchange wholesale market makers instead of ...
P. Jain +3 more
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Exchange Rates and Prices: Evidence from the 2015 Swiss Franc Appreciation
The American Economic Review, 2018 We dissect the impact of a large and sudden exchange rate appreciation on Swiss border import prices, retail prices, and consumer expenditures on domestic and imported nondurable goods, following the removal of the EUR/CHF floor in January 2015.
Raphael A. Auer +2 more
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Consumer Myopia in Vehicle Purchases: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019 A central question in the analysis of fuel economy policy is whether consumers are myopic with regards to future fuel costs. We provide the first evidence on the consumer valuation of fuel economy from a natural experiment that provides exogenous ...
Kenneth Gillingham +2 more
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Newspapers in Times of Low Advertising Revenues
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2019 We model the consequences on newspapers’ content and prices of a reduction in advertising revenues. Newspapers choose the size of their newsroom, and readers are heterogeneous in their ideal amount of journalistic-intensive content.
Charles Angelucci, Julia Cagé
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