Category management refers generally to the process by which retailers select products to stock, display, promote, advertise, and price within a product category. Category management contracts involve a retailer designating a particular manufacturer as the “category captain”, who has...

This paper analyses the relationship between the selected measures of competition and the actual intensity of the interaction in the product market under the presence of market frictions. The first part of the study compares the industry-level price-cost margin and profit elasticity within a...

This paper examines the introduction of piecework, a key aspect of the Soviet workplace, in occupied East Germany. As elsewhere, its implementation encountered persistent hostility from the workforce. What made this episode different, though, was that this process occurred within a context of...