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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Main Authors: Anderson, Eric (Author), Malin, Benjamin A. (Author), Nakamura, Emi (Author), Simester, Duncan (Author), Steinsson, Jon (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor), Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier BV, 2020-08-31T21:03:42Z.
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