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Retail Mergers: Buyer Power and Product Variety

Inderst, Roman; Shaffer, Greg - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper analyses the impact of retail mergers on product variety. We show that a merging firm may want to enhance its buyer power vis a vis suppliers by delisting products and committing to a ‘single-sourcing’ purchasing strategy. Anticipating this, suppliers will strategically choose to...

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Price and Brand Competition between Differentiated Retailers: A Structural Econometric Model

Dubois, Pierre; Jodar Rosell, Sandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We develop a model of competition between retailer chains with a structural estimation of the demand and supply in the supermarket industry in France. In the model, supermarkets compete in price and brand offer over all food products to attract consumers, in particular through the share of...

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Buyer Power and Supplier Incentives

Inderst, Roman; Wey, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper investigates how the formation of larger buyers affects a supplier's profits and, by doing so, his incentives to undertake non-contractible activities. We first identify two channels of buyer power, which allows larger buyers to obtain discounts. We subsequently examine the effects of...

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Shopping Hours and Price Competition

Inderst, Roman; Irmen, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper develops an argument explaining why retail prices may rise in response to the deregulation of opening hours. We make this point in a model of imperfect duopolistic competition. In a deregulated market retailers view the choice of opening hours as a means to increase the degree of...

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Supplier Responses to Wal-Mart's Invasion in Mexico

Iacovone, Leonardo; Javorcik, Beata; Keller, Wolfgang; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper examines the effect of Wal-Mart's entry into Mexico on Mexican manufacturers of consumer goods. Guided by firm interviews that suggested substantial heterogeneity across firms in how they responded to Wal-Mart's entry, we develop a dynamic industry model in which firms decide whether...

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Market Structure and Market Performance in E-Commerce

Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

producer for consumer electronics. We observe input prices of firms, and all their moves in the entry and the pricing game over …

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Distribution Costs and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics During Exchange-Rate-Based Stabilization

Burstein, Ariel Tomas; Neves, Joao C; Rebelo, Sérgio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper studies the role played by distribution costs in shaping the behaviour of the real exchange rate during … exchange-rate-based stabilizations. We document that distribution costs are very large for the average consumer good: the … represent more than 40% of the retail price in the US and 60% of the retail price in Argentina. Distribution services require …

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Winners and Losers in a North-South Model of Growth, Innovation and Product Cycles

Chui, Michael; Levine, Paul L; Pearlman, Joseph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

The paper examines the welfare gains from North-South trade and their distribution. We construct an endogenous growth …

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Does Inequality Cause Inflation? The Political Economy of Inflation, Taxation and Government Debt

Beetsma, Roel; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

A democratic society in which the distribution of wealth is unequal elects political parties which tend to represent …

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Globalization, Growth and Distribution in Spain 1500-1913

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Rosés, Joan R.; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

The endogenous growth literature has explored the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages, living standards and labour productivity are all linked to factor endowments, to one where (endogenous) productivity change embedded in modern industrial growth breaks that link. Recently,...

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