Does distance reflect more than transport costs?

Chi-Young Choi and Horag Choi

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 125, issue 1, 82-86

Abstract: We decompose the effect of distance on intercity retail price dispersion in US into transport and non-transport cost components. We find that distance contains more information than transport costs. Care should be taken in interpreting distance effect as transport costs only.

Keywords: Distance; Geographic price differences; Transport costs; US cities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 F15 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.08.016

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