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Abstract
This study explores the strategic pricing behaviors across retail chains
for produce products. We adopt a Panel-VAR model to identify the driving
factors of retail price variation and find that retail price history,
competition, product cost are among the key drivers of retail price change.
Forecast Error Variance Decomposition (FEVD) is used to quantify the
relative impact of driving factors to retail price changes and show how
they affect prices differently across retail chains. We also find that
higher responsiveness to competition may indicate superior management
ability in price setting that associates with better profitability in
practice.