Original scientific paper
The Administered-Price Hypothesis Revisited
David R. Kamerschen
; University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Jae-Hee Park
; University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Abstract
The relationship between market structure and firms’ pricing behaviour has been a major and controversial issue in industrial economics. The question of how firms’ pricing behaviour differs across market structures is the focus of the administered-price thesis. In this paper the authors review theories providing rationales for the administered-price thesis and their empirical underpinnings, and methodological controversies concerning price series of differnt industries.
Keywords
administered pricing hypothesis; transaction and list prices; price equation; price rigidity; market structure
Hrčak ID:
34402
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Publication date:
1.11.1999.
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