| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w18811 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 18811 |
| Understanding Long-run Price Dispersion | |
| Mario J. Crucini; Hakan Yilmazkuday | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-02-15 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We use a unique panel of retail prices spanning 123 cities in 79 countries from 1990 to 2005, to uncover six novel properties of long-run international price dispersion. First, at the PPP level, virtually all (91.6%) of price dispersion is attributed to service-sector wages, consistent with a dominant role of the retail distribution margin. Second, at the level of individual goods and services, the average contribution of service-sector wages is significantly reduced, one-third as large (31.9%). This reflects the fact that good-specific sources of price dispersion, such as trade costs and good-specific markups, tend to average out across goods. Third, at the LOP level, borders and distance contribute about equally to price dispersion with distance elasticities consistent with the existing trade gravity literature which links trade volumes (rather than relative prices) to borders and distance. Fourth, in the cross-section, price dispersion is rising in the distribution share consistent with the notion that baby-sitting services and haircuts embody local wages to a far greater extent than highly traded manufactured goods. Fifth, we provide the first estimates of distribution margins at the micro-level and show them to be very different across goods and substantial in the aggregate, where they account for about 55% of consumption expenditure. Sixth, these estimates are broadly consistent with more aggregated U.S. NIPA measures currently used in the literature. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; Trade ; Globalization and International Relations |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18811 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576485 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Mario J. Crucini,Hakan Yilmazkuday. Understanding Long-run Price Dispersion. 2013. |
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| w18811.pdf（979KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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