Price Response, Asymmetric Information, and Competition

Joshua Sherman () and Avi Weiss

No 2012-13, Working Papers from Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics

Abstract: We compare predictions from a theoretical model based on the structure of the main outdoor retail market in Jerusalem with the results of an empirical analysis of price response to changes in cost. We find that firms without adjacent competition exhibit both upward and downward price rigidity, an outcome we ascribe to asymmetric information between the consumer and the firm. Given that previous studies have focused on downward price rigidities of firms with market power, our findings highlight the importance of accounting for transitory information asymmetries between the consumer and the firm when studying price rigidity.

Keywords: price response; price rigidity; information asymmetry; market power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L11 L13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2012-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-com, nep-ind and nep-mkt
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