Private label price rigidity during holiday periods

Georg Müller, Mark Bergen, Shantanu Dutta and Daniel Levy ()
Additional contact information
Georg Müller: Deloitte Consulting [Diegem]
Mark Bergen: Carlson School of Management - UMN - University of Minnesota [Twin Cities] - UMN - University of Minnesota System
Shantanu Dutta: FBE, Marshall School of Business - USC - University of Southern California

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: Using weekly retail transaction scanner price data from a large US supermarket chain, significantly higher retail price rigidity is found for private label products than for nationally branded products during the Christmas and Thanksgiving holiday periods relative to the rest of the year. The finding cannot be explained by changes in holiday period promotional practices because it is found that private label promotions appear to diminish at least as much as national brands. The increased rigidity of private label products relative to national brands is only partially accounted for by increased rigidity of wholesale prices. After ruling out other potential explanations, it is suggested that the higher private label price rigidity might be due to the increased emphasis on social consumption during holiday periods, raising the customers' value of nationally branded products relative to the private labels.

Keywords: Price Rigidity; Holidays; Private Label; National Brand; Social Consumption; Price Stickiness; Sticky Prices; Rigid Prices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-01-15
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-02386962
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (10)

Published in Applied Economics Letters, 2006, 13 (1), pp.57-62. ⟨10.1080/13504850500378247⟩

Downloads: (external link)
https://hal.science/hal-02386962/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Private label price rigidity during holiday periods (2006)
Journal Article: Private Label Price Rigidity during Holiday Periods (2006)
Working Paper: Private Label Price Rigidity during Holiday Periods (2005)
Working Paper: Private Label Price Rigidity during Holiday Periods (2005)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02386962

DOI: 10.1080/13504850500378247

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().