Price dispersion in Argentina

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dc.contributor.MentorAlbornoz, Facundo
dc.creator.AutorPerrotta, Fernanda Analía
dc.date.accessioned1/7/2021 16:55Z
dc.date.available1/7/2021 16:55Z
dc.date.issued2019-08
dc.descriptionFil: Perrotta, Fernanda Analía. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina.
dc.description.abstractWe investigate how the structure of price dispersion is in Argentina. We use daily data reported by supermarkets and we measure price dispersion at the bar code level in order to analyze whether supermarkets set prices differently, whether those price differences are spatial or temporal, and whether a large devaluation shock affects pricing behavior. We use more than 9 million prices and we calculate the dispersion of weekly prices relative to the average monthly price per product. We found that on average across products the 90th percentile of relative prices is 10 percentage points higher than the 10th and the mean absolute deviation from monthly average product prices is 2%. Price dispersion across stores in Argentina is heterogeneous among retail chains but local conditions regarding demand or competition contribute significantly but they have small impact. Furthermore, we tested that supermarkets pricing behavior remains within its essence after a large devaluation shock.
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dc.identifier.citationPerrotta, F. A. (2019). Price dispersion in Argentina. [Tesis de maestría, Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía]. Repositorio Digital San Andrés. http://hdl.handle.net/10908/17696
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10908/17696
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.titlePrice dispersion in Argentina
dc.typeTesis
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
dc.typeinfo:ar-repo/semantics/tesis de maestría
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/updatedVersion
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