Informational Rigidities and the Stickiness of Temporary Sales

How do retailers react to cost changes? While temporary sales account for 95% of price change in our data, retail prices respond to a wholesale cost increase entirely through the regular price. Sales actually respond temporarily in the opposite direction from regular prices, as though to conceal the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Anderson, Eric, Malin, Benjamin A., Nakamura, Emi, Simester, Duncan, Steinsson, Jon
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier BV 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126849