most citedSticky information and price controls: Evidence from a natural experiment

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econ.GN2025

0.001% and Counting: Revisiting the Price Rounding Tax

Doron Sayag, Avichai Snir, Daniel Levy

In 1991 and 2008, Israel abolished the equivalents of 1-cent and 5-cent coins, respectively, effectively eliminating low-denomination coins and introducing rounding in cash transac…

econ.GN2025★ 2 cited

Sticky information and price controls: Evidence from a natural experiment

Doron Sayag, Avichai Snir, Daniel Levy

We test the predictions of the sticky information model using a survey dataset by comparing shoppers accuracy in recalling the prices of regulated and comparable unregulated produc…

econ.GN2024

Price Setting Rules, Rounding Tax, and Inattention Penalty

Doron Sayag, Avichai Snir, Daniel Levy

We study the price rounding regulation in Israel, which outlawed non-0-ending prices, forcing retailers to round 9 ending prices, which in many stores, comprised more than 60 perce…

econ.GN2024

Large Effects of Small Cues: Priming Selfish Economic Decisions

Avichai Snir, Dudi Levy, Dian Wang +2

Many experimental studies report that economics students tend to act more selfishly than students of other disciplines, a finding that received widespread public and professional a…

econ.GN2024

Price Gouging or Market Forces? Fairness Perceptions of Price Hikes in the Pandemic

Avichai Snir, Daniel Levy, Dudi Levy +1

We report the results of surveys we conducted in the US and Israel in 2020, a time when many prices increased following the spread of the pandemic. To assess respondents perception…

econ.GN2024

Small Price Changes, Sales Volume, and Menu Cost

Doron Sayag, Avichai Snir, Daniel Levy

The finding of small price changes in many retail price datasets is often viewed as a puzzle. We show that a possible explanation for the presence of small price changes is related…