Why Do Retail Prices Fall During Seasonal Demand Peaks?

Examining widely‐sold products across dozens of categories in a national scanner database, we find seasonality in demand is large—20 log points for the median category, and pervasive. At seasonal frequencies, price fluctuations are typically countercyclical but small—1.5 log points on average. For m...

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Publicado en:RAND Journal of Economics (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 35 - 55
Autores principales: Butters, R. Andrew, Sacks, Daniel W., Seo, Boyoung
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Spring2025
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