Alvarez, Santiago E., Alberto Cavallo, Alexander MacKay, and Paolo Mengano. "Markups and Cost Pass-through Along the Supply Chain." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-009, August 2024.
Markups were as much as 35 times higher than what other pharmacies charged, according to a recent analysis of millions of prescriptions in Washington state. “It’s absolutely not fair ...
The rising trend in markups documented in the United States and many other countries posed concerns in recent decades. This paper estimates firm-level markups using Japanese data during 2000--2021.
Differences between prices and costs are known as markups, and in the pandemic-era economy, those gaps are wider than ever. Both markups and profits among 3,698 US-operating firms soared last year ...