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Prices and consumer purchasing preferences at the border: evidence from a multi-country household scanner data set
- 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.
Author: | Günter W. Beck, Hans-Helmut KotzGND, Natalia ZabelinaGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-415839 |
URL: | https://www.ifk-cfs.de/fileadmin/downloads/publications/wp/2016/CFS_WP_536.pdf |
Parent Title (English): | Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 536 |
Series (Serial Number): | CFS working paper series (536) |
Publisher: | Center for Financial Studies |
Place of publication: | Frankfurt, M. |
Document Type: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2016 |
Year of first Publication: | 2016 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2016/10/18 |
Tag: | border effects; demand elasticities; goods market integration; habit formation; international price setting; price discrimination; scanner price data |
Issue: | This draft: August 2016 |
Page Number: | 71 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 390270814 |
Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS) | |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |