Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21170 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 315
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper investigates price-setting for truly homogenous products sold in markets without any formal trade barriers. We use data from IKEA, a furniture company selling identical products in an identical shopping environment in different EU countries. We get four remarkable outcomes: 1) The law of one price does not hold. 2) Country-specific effects of non-tradable cost components are important. 3) Pricing to the market surely occurs but price discrimination is limited by incomplete information. 4) The unexplained part of betweencountry price variation for identical products is about 75% which leaves most of the intercountry price variation unexplained.
Subjects: 
Price setting
price discrimination
JEL: 
D4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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