Holiday price rigidity and cost of price adjustment

Economica

Volumn 77, Issue 305, 2010, Pages 172-198

  Levy, Daniel ^a   Chen, Haipeng Allan ^b   Muller, Georg ^c   Dutta, Shantanu ^d   Bergen, Mark ^e  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Monitor Group   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY PRICE; ECONOMETRICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRICE DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; RETAILING; TRANSACTION COST;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 73349113211     PISSN: 00130427     EISSN: 14680335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2008.00738.x     Document Type: Article

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