The patterns of retail price variation. The case of milk products

Imre Fertő and Zoltán Bakucs ()

No 51670, 2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China from International Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: We examine retail price variation across a range of milk products in Hungary. Our results show that majority of products have regular prices and the most deviations from that regular price are upward. We find significant differences across products in terms of price distributions. Sales are infrequent for majority of products and its role is limited in annual price variation. Results do not confirm that durable goods should have qualitatively different pricing pattern than less-durable goods. Although existing models of retail sales yield predictions consistent with some aspects of the retail pricing distributions, all of these models fail to explain other important aspects of retail pricing identified here.

Keywords: Demand and Price Analysis; Industrial Organization; Marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18
Date: 2009-06-29
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.51670

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