Price Points and Price Rigidity
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Price Points and Price Rigidity
We study the link between price points and price rigidity, using two datasets: weekly scanner data, and Internet data. We find that (i) “9” is the most frequently used price-ending for the penny, dime, dollar and ten-dollar digits, (ii) the most common price changes are those that keep the price endings at these “9” digits, (iii) the 9-ending prices are less likely to change in comparison to no...
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عنوان ژورنال: Review of Economics and Statistics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0034-6535,1530-9142
DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_00178