Comparing Two Sources of Retail Meat Price Data

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Price Transparency and Retail Prices

Price transparency initiatives are typically undertaken by third parties to ensure that consumers can compare the prices of competing offers in markets where obtaining such information is costly. Such practices have recently become widespread, yet it is unclear whether the increased price competition due to lower search costs overcomes the potential for collusion between competitors due to lowe...

Price Discrimination in Retail Markets

The hypothesis that price discrimination exploiting the consumer's willingness to pay for quality can occur in multi-firm industries is confirmed using microdata on retail gasoline prices. A test based on the price differentials at stations providing only one service quality (full or self service) and stations providing both qualities is developed and implemented with controls for variations in...

Clostridium difficile in Retail Ground Meat, Canada

Clostridium difficile was isolated from 12 (20%) of 60 retail ground meat samples purchased over a 10-month period in 2005 in Canada. Eleven isolates were toxigenic, and 8 (67%) were classified as toxinotype III. The human health implications of this finding are unclear, but with the virulence of toxinotype III strains further studies are required.

Competition Under Retail Price and Manufacturer Service

This research studies a case where there are two manufacturers producing competing products and selling them through a common retailer. The consumer demand depends on two factors: (1) retail price, and (2) service level provided by the manufacturer. Game-theoretic framework is applied to obtained the equilibrium solutions for every entities. This article studies and compares results from three ...