Is Sales Tax Included in the Price? Consumer Inattention and Price Competition
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Keywords
price competition; price comparisons; sales tax; value added tax; fast and slow-computing consumers; mental accounting; inattention; consumer decision making;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
- H29 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Other
- L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
- M3 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Marketing and Advertising
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ACC-2024-11-25 (Accounting and Auditing)
- NEP-COM-2024-11-25 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-MIC-2024-11-25 (Microeconomics)
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