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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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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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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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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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Bargaining under the Illusion of Transparency

Madarász, Kristóf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

An uninformed seller offers an object to a privately informed buyer. The buyer projects information and exaggerates the probability that the seller is informed. Letting the buyer bargain and name her own price raises the seller's payoff above the full-commitment payoff. Under seller-offer...

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To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda

Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean S.; McConnell, Margaret; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Pricing policy for any experience good faces a key tradeoff. On one hand, a price reduction increases immediate demand … comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health products in … low-income countries, where free or heavily subsidized distribution is a common but controversial practice. Based on a …

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Payment Evasion

Buehler, Stefan; Halbheer, Daniel; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper models payment evasion as a source of profit by letting the firm choose the purchase price and the fine imposed on detected payment evaders. For a given price and fine, the consumers purchase, evade payment, or choose the outside option. We show that payment evasion leads to a form of...

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Strategic Pricing and Entry under Universal Service and Cross-Market Price Constraints

Anton, James J; Weide, James H Vander; Vettas, Nikolaos - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

In this paper, we examine how cross-market price restrictions impact strategic entry and pricing decisions. A …

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