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Violating the Law of One Price

其他書名	Should We Make a Federal Case Out of It?
出版	National Bureau of Economic Research, 1999
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ajqyAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋We use new disaggregated data on consumer prices to determine why there is variability in prices of similar goods across U.S. cities. We address questions similar to those that have arisen in the international context: is this variability purely a result of market segmentation or do sticky nominal prices play a role? We also examine how the degree of tradability of a good influences price variability. Surprisingly, we find that variability is larger for traded-goods. We attribute this finding to greater price stickiness for non-traded goods. Distance between cities accounts for a significant amount of the variation in prices between pairs of cities. But we also find that nominal price stickiness plays an even more significant role.