TY  - UNPD
A1  - Beck, Günter W.
A1  - Kotz, Hans-Helmut
A1  - Zabelina, Natalia
T1  - Prices and consumer purchasing preferences at the border: evidence from a multi-country household scanner data set
T2  - Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 536
N2  - Studies employing micro price data to examine the extent of international goods market integration tend to find that borders induce arbitrage-impeding transaction costs which contribute to segment national markets. Analyzing household scanner price data from the three euro area countries Belgium, Germany and Netherlands, we document that Belgian households living in the vicinity of the border to Netherlands pay almost 10% more for the same good as their Dutch counterparts. German consumers on the other hand face prices that are on average up to around 3% smaller than those in the neighboring Netherlands. Counterfactual evidence for within-country price discontinuities provides no evidence of any existing border effects. The induced costs of crossing national borders amount to at least 13%. We also find evidence on border discontinuities in various household preference characteristics (such as demand elasticities and goods valuation) and household shopping patterns such as shopping frequencies.
T3  - CFS working paper series - 536 
KW  - goods market integration
KW  - international price setting
KW  - border effects
KW  - price discrimination
KW  - demand elasticities
KW  - habit formation
KW  - scanner price data
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/41583
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-415839
UR  - https://www.ifk-cfs.de/fileadmin/downloads/publications/wp/2016/CFS_WP_536.pdf
IS  - This draft: August 2016
PB  - Center for Financial Studies
CY  - Frankfurt, M.
ER  -