Sales and price spikes in retail scanner data

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2011
Volume: 110
Issue: 2
Pages: 143-146

Score contribution per author:

1.009 = (α=2.02 / 1 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Price filters used by macroeconomists place strong restrictions on "regular price" series. I propose a new price filter and show that, while many pricing facts are robust to filter specification, implications for price duration depend on the choice of filter.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:110:y:2011:i:2:p:143-146
Journal Field
General
Author Count
1
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2026-01-25