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Price Dispersion and the Role of Stores

Espen Moen (), Fredrik Wulfsberg and Øyvind Aas

Working Papers from Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo Business School

Abstract: This paper studies price dispersion in the Norwegian retail market for 766 products across 4297 stores over 60 months. Price dispersion for homogeneous products is significant and persistent, with a coefficient of variation of 37% for the median product. Price dispersion differs between product categories and over time. Store heterogeneity accounts for 30% of the observed variation in prices for the median product-month and for around 50% for the sample as a whole. Price dispersion is still prevalent after correcting for store heterogeneity.

Keywords: Price dispersion; retail prices; store heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D2 D4 E3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-08-09
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