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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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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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Market Structure and Market Performance in E-Commerce

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

We investigate the causal effect of market structure on market performance in the consumer electronics. We combine data from Austria's largest online site for price comparisons with retail data on wholesale prices provided by a major hardware producer for consumer electronics. We observe input...

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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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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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Robots at Work

Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

robot use with a measure of workers’ replaceability by robots, which is based on the tasks prevalent in industries before …Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots’ potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their … economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a …

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Employment protection versus flexicurity: on technology adoption in unionised firms

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We analyse how different labour market institutions--employment protection versus ‘flexicurity’--affect technology adoption in unionised firms. We consider trade unions’ incentives to oppose or endorse labour-saving technology and firms’ incentives to invest in such technology. Increased...

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Nudging Farmers to Utilize Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Duflo, Esther; Kremer, Michael; Robinson, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

While many developing-country policymakers see heavy fertilizer subsidies as critical to raising agricultural productivity, most economists see them as distortionary, regressive, environmentally unsound, and argue that they result in politicized, inefficient distribution of fertilizer supply. We...

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How Trade Policy Affects Technology Adoption and Productivity

Herrendorf, Berthold; Teixeira, Arilton - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

How does trade policy a affect technology adoption, total factor productivity (TFP henceforth), and per capita income? To study this question we construct a dynamic general equilibrium model of a small open economy in which a coalition of skilled workers chooses the technology. We obtain three...

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