Patterns of Retail Price Variation

By Daniel Hosken, D. Reiffen. 2004

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Pass-Through in Retail and Wholesale (2008, methodology): “…the same product category, implying that often only a single observation is available for a unique UPC at a given point in time.8 As a consequence, Hosken and Reiffen (2004) analyze the role of manufacturers by studying price comovement across products in narrowly defined product categories…”
Price Rigidity: Microeconomic Evidence and Macroeconomic Implications (2013, unknown): “Hosken & Reiffen (2004) use BLS CPI data to evaluate the empirical implications of IO models of sales.”
Sales and Monetary Policy (2011, background): “In Kehoe and Midrigan (2008), sales arise because temporary price changes are cheaper than changes to a product’s regular price in an environment where firms are subject to large and transitory idiosyncratic shocks. However, to the best of our knowledge, this proposed explanation for sales has not b”
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Search Costs (2008, methodology): “com so we used this site to sample the prices of the firms over time.(16) Shopper.”
An empirical model of search with vertically differentiated products (2011, background): “In recent work it has been observed that a typical grocery product is sold at a regular price for a number of time periods, whereas only once in a while the product is sold at a discount price (see, e.g., Pesendorfer, 2002, and Hosken and Reiffen, 2004).”