Quality and Price Setting of High-Tech Goods /
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy.
Quality and Price Setting of High-Tech Goods / Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Oleksandr Talavera, Nam Hoai Vu. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w28390 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28390. .
January 2021.
This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and level of seller stability, are important factors for explaining price stickiness and price dispersion. We demonstrate that calculations of price inflation require conditioning not only on CPU quality, but also on market fundamentals to ensure that CPU attributes are priced correctly. Failing to do so can result in an understatement of CPU price deflation in the sample period.
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Quality and Price Setting of High-Tech Goods / Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Oleksandr Talavera, Nam Hoai Vu. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w28390 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28390. .
January 2021.
This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and level of seller stability, are important factors for explaining price stickiness and price dispersion. We demonstrate that calculations of price inflation require conditioning not only on CPU quality, but also on market fundamentals to ensure that CPU attributes are priced correctly. Failing to do so can result in an understatement of CPU price deflation in the sample period.
System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.