We model an influencer economy in which brand owners and sellers depend on influencers to attract consumers while competing in both influencer and product markets. As technologies governing marketing outreach improve, the equilibrium features non-monotonicities in influencer market...

Distribution und Logistik -- Modelle der Distributionslogistik -- Digitalisierung in der Distributionslogistik -- Internationale Handelsklauseln -- Logistiknetzwerke und Lieferketten -- Distributionsstandort -- Lagertechnik und Kommissionierung -- Verpackung, Lager- und Förderhilfsmittel --...

Nearly half of all transactions in the $5 trillion market for manufactured goods in the United States were intermediated by wholesalers in 2012, up from 32 percent in 1992. Seventy percent of this increase is due to the growth of "superstar" firms - the largest one percent of wholesalers....