Psychological Prices
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* Financial support provided by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the project “Intertemporal Price Formation in the Grocery-retailing Sector: Theory and Empirical Tests” (He 1419/8-1) is gratefully acknowledged. This project made it possible to use the scanner dataset on which the empirical analysis is based. Thanks are due to seminar participants in the Institute of Agricultural Policy and Market Research, University of Giessen, and to two anonymous referees of this journal for very helpful comments on an earlier version and Simone THEUERKAUF for very helpful research assistance.
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