Inhalt

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   Declaration of Authorship
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   Acknowledgements
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   Contents
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   List of Figures
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   List of Tables
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   Introduction
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  Price gaps at the border
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   Introduction and literature overview
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  Data and descriptive statistics
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   Data
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   Matching results for goods across countries
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   Descriptive evidence on within- and cross-country price dispersion
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  Estimation approach
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   Theoretical considerations
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   Estimation approach
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   Integration vs. segmentation and the cost of borders
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   Price gaps at the border: Base results
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   Counterfactual evidence from within-country regions
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   Direct evidence from cross-border shopping data
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   Indirect evidence from (inter-)national price co-movements
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   Retailer variation and border effects
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  Sample characteristics and border estimates
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   The role of the composition of sample goods
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   Border region characteristics and border effects
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   Summary and conclusions
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  Appendices
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   The role of household income
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  Additional results on the data and descriptive statistics (s:data)
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   Additional tables on matching results for goods across countries
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   Comparing goods composition between overall and the estimation sample
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   Within and cross-country price dispersion at a regional level: differences in regional mean prices
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   Additional figures illustrating the data sample and descriptive statistics
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  Additional results for the basic regression analysis (subs:baseresu)
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   Additional figures illustrating basic regression results
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   Testing for the robustness of the RD baseline regression specification
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   Additional results on the countercyclical evidence analysis (subs:counterfactual)
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  Additional results on border analysis using cross-border shopping
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   Statistics on cross-border purchases
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   Border estimates (incl. cross-border shopping observations), grouped by significance and the occurrence of cross border shopping
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   Border estimates (excl. cross-border shopping observations), grouped by significance and the occurrence of cross-border shopping
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   Summary statistics of goods subject to cross-border shopping
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   Co-movement of prices in border- and non-border regions
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  Additional results on the role of retailer variation (Section 5)
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   Within and between country price dispersion: all retailers vs same retailer
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   Within- and between-country price dispersion using only goods for which we have a border estimate: all retailers vs. same retailer
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   Border estimates only for goods sold by common retailers
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  Additional results on the role of sample characteristics
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  Price dispersion and border estimation results for homogeneous samples across country groups
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   Within- and between-country price dispersion for homogeneous samples across countries
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   Within- and between- country price dispersion for goods common across all countries and included in our estimation sample
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   RD estimates for common goods
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  RD estimates grouped by product characteristics and product categories
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   RD estimates grouped by price and purchase frequency
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   RD estimates by different groups: product category
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   Exploring the role of geographic heterogeneity
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  Regional inflation rates: measurement and biases
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   Introduction
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  Measures of inflation
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   Conventional (non-UPI) price indexes
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   The Redding-Weinstein CES unified price index (UPI)
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   Elasticity estimation
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   Data and descriptive statistics
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   Results
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   Elasticities of substitution
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   Regional inflation rates
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   Biases in regional inflation rates
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   Conclusions
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  Appendices
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   Additional tables
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   Additional figures
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  Regional inflation rates and local economic conditions
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   Introduction
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   Related literature
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  Data and descriptive statistics
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   Regional unemployment
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   Scanner price inflation rates
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  Sensitivity of regional inflation to local economic conditions
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   Methodology
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   Results
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   Co-movement of regional variables
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   Conclusions
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  Appendices
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  Additional tables
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   Additional tables for Section ``Sensitivity of regional inflation to local economic conditions''
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   Additional tables for Section ``Co-movement of regional variables''
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  Additional figures
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   Additional figures for Section ``Data and descriptive statistics''
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   Additional figures for Section ```Co-movement of regional variables''
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   References