Existence and Persistence of Price Dispersion: An Empirical Analysis

By S. Lach. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Retail Gasoline Pricing: What Do We Know? (2008, unknown): “3 Lach (2002) finds very similar results in a sample of retail prices of consumer goods in Israel; i.”
Price Rigidity and Price Dispersion: Evidence from Micro Data (2004, methodology): “We do this for the two high inflation periods in the Lach and Tsiddon (1992) data and for 21 products in the 91-92 moderate inflation sample.”
Consumer search and dynamic price dispersion: an application to gasoline markets (2011, unknown): “For example, Lewis (2008), Hosken et al. (2008), and Lach and Moraga-Gonzalez (2009) nd evidence of mixed strategies and hence consumer search in the gasoline market by noting that the probability that a sellers price remains in the same quartile of the distribution in the following period is ”
An empirical model of search with vertically differentiated products (2011, unknown): “Then using the same change of variable in equation (6) we can get rid of u(y) in equation (9).”
Housing Price Dispersion: An Empirical Investigation (2006, unknown): “Therefore, as Lach (2002) argued, it is not easy for consumers to learn which stores consistently offer lower prices.”
Temporal price dispersion: Evidence from an online consumer electronics market (2004, background): “In the context of off-line markets, Villas-Boas (1995) and Lach (2002) examine some implications of Varian’s model and find limited support for it.”
Number of sellers, average prices, and price dispersion (2004, result): “24 On the other hand, in support of the Varian model, Lach (2002) does find significant distribution mobility for various food products, a finding consistent with Varian’s mixed-strategy characterization of the equilibrium price distribution.”
Prices and Promotions in U.S. Retail Markets: Evidence from Big Data (2019, unknown): “Lach, S. (2002): “Existence and Persistence of Price Dispersion: An Empirical Analysis,” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 84, 433–444. Nakamura, E. (2008): “Pass-Through in Retail and Wholesale,” NBER Working Paper 13965. Nakamura, E. and J. Steinsson (2008): “Five Facts About Prices: A Reeva”
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Search Costs (2008, unknown): “true number of retailers is not dramatically different than our estimate of N , the results, though biased, will be economically meaningful.(20) Not every firm was quoting a price every week.”