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| Martens, M. Andrea. |
| This study analyzes Wal-Mart’s pricing practices and its influence on competitors’ input cost transmission. Previous attempts to analyze Wal-Mart’s pricing strategy in the United States have been limited by the company’s refusal to provide scanner data to third party research firms such as AC Nielsen. This is the first study to observe Wal-Mart’s prices over an extended period of time. Using weekly-store level price data between 2001 and 2006 that government officials collected in 12 Mexican cities, I find that Wal-Mart adjusts its prices 1/3-3 times slower to wholesale price increases than other retailers and responds 5-7 times faster to wholesale price decreases than its competitors. This evidence is robust to the comparison of Wal-Mart to other hypermarkets... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Wal-Mart; Cost pass-through; Competition; Agribusiness; Industrial Organization. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49459 |
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| Leibtag, Ephraim S.; Nakamura, Alice; Nakamura, Emi; Zerom, Dawit. |
| A rich data set of coffee prices and costs was used to determine to what extent changes in commodity costs affect manufacturer and retail prices. On average, a 10-cent increase in the cost of a pound of green coffee beans in a given quarter results in a 2-cent increase in manufacturer and retail prices in that quarter. If a cost change persists for several quarters, it will be incorporated into manufacturer prices approximately cent-forcent with the commodity-cost change. Given the substantial fixed costs and markups involved in coffee manufacturing, this translates into about a 3-percent change in retail prices for a 10-percent change in commodity prices. We do not find robust evidence that coffee prices respond more to increases than to decreases in costs. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Cost pass-through; Retail prices; Manufacturer prices; Commodity costs; Coffee; Demand and Price Analysis. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7253 |
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