Booms, busts, and price dispersion

Robert Clark and Nicolas Vincent

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 124, issue 3, 399-401

Abstract: Using grocery store data we study the relationship between dispersion and the business cycle. Our findings reveal that overall there is no robust and significant relationship; however, these mask important heterogeneity in the cyclicality of dispersion at the category level.

Keywords: Price dispersion; Business cycles; Scanner data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D4 E3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.06.007

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