Projects Funded for Jeffrey T. LaFrance
2009-2010
Brand Name and Private Label Price Setting by a Grocery Store
Jeffrey Perloff and Jeffrey T. LaFrance
Abstract
A grocery store that sells to brand-name loyal customers and to price-sensitive customers must decide whether to carry both name-brand and private-label products and how much to charge. Introducing a private label may either raise or lower the price that a store charges for a brand-name product. As the number of customers that are price sensitive increases, a store may be more likely to carry a private label, but the prices of both the private label and brand-name may rise. As the reservation price of price-sensitive consumers rises, the price differential between the brand name and private label first falls; but if the reservation price rises further, the store may stop carrying the private label. Given price-sensitive consumers, a store may charge a higher price for the brand name than that which would maximize profit if it sold to only brand-loyal customers.
2007-2008
Economic Wealth and the Extensive Margin
Jeffrey T. LaFrance
2005-2006
Risk Response and Hysteresis
Jeffrey T. LaFrance
2004-2005
Impacts of the Federal Crop Insurance Program on Acreage Decisions, Risk Management, and the Extensive Margin and the Environment
Jeffrey T. LaFrance
2002-2003
Effects of Common Taxes on Wine Production, Aging, and Sales
Jeffrey T. LaFrance and Leo K. Simon
2001-2002
The Impact of Cointegrated Prices on Demand and Policy Analysis
Jeffrey T. LaFrance