Price dispersion across US districts of entry

Hakan Yilmazkuday

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 123, issue 3, 361-365

Abstract: Price dispersion of US imports are investigated across US districts of entry. Markups explain about 31% of price dispersion, while marginal costs of production explain about 69%; effects of trade costs, for which we have actual data, are almost none.

Keywords: Price dispersion; Variable markups; Trade costs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F13 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.03.018

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