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Productivity in Australia's wholesale and retail trade

Johnston, Alan; Porter, Darrell; Cobbold, Trevor; … - EconWPA - 2001

Examines the productivity performance of the wholesale and retail trade sectors in light of their significant contribution to Australia’s record productivity performance in the 1990s. Fundamental changes in the nature and operations of wholesale trade, in particular, have brought marked...

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Asymmetric Wholesale Pricing: Theory and Evidence

Ray, Sourav; Chen, Haipeng; Bergen, Mark; Levy, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

Asymmetric pricing is the phenomenon where prices rise more readily than they fall. We articulate, and provide empirical support for, a theory of asymmetric pricing in wholesale prices. In particular, we show how wholesale prices may be asymmetric in the small but symmetric in the large, when...

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Measuring Customer Value Gaps: An Empirical Study in Mexican Retail Market

Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2005

stores located in Mexico City. …

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El Geomarketing y la distribución comercial

Chasco-Yrigoyen, Coro - EconWPA - 2004

statistics.This is geomarketing, a new big Tool which solves some critical retailing location problems, which are often … applied to real cases often found in different retailing contexts. …

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A Residential Energy Demand System for Spain

Labandeira, Xavier; Labeaga, José M.; Rodríguez, Miguel - EconWPA - 2005

Sharp price fluctuations and increasing environmental and distributional concerns, among other issues, have led to a renewed academic interest in energy demand. In this paper we estimate, for the first time in Spain, an energy demand system with household microdata. In doing so, we tackle...

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Marketing as an entrance barrier into the fashion market

Vieira, Pedro Cosme Costa - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper I intend to model a firm decision of entrance into a profitable fashion market where fashion results from … fashion market and that ii) when incumbent firm accommodates the other firm a la Cournot there is no pure strategy Nash … equilibrium. The properties of the model seem to be in accordance with the persistence in time of fashion brands. …

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Buying Organic Food in France : Shopping Habits and Trust

Sirieix, Lucie; Schaer, Brigitte - EconWPA - 2005

retailing, in order to highlight the differences and the similarities of viewpoints between them and to understand the links … of this study conducted in France and Germany show that consumers in organic food stores put trust in their store but are … shopping. They seem to appreciate markets particularly, and appear to attach no particular value to organic food stores, nor to …

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Measuring Variability Factors in Consumer Values for Profit Optimization in a Firm – A Framework for Analysis

Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2004

the core issues of consumer values in retailing the products and services as how to conceptualize consumer values, how to …

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Consumer Perspectives of Brand Extension Effects : Information Analysis Determining the Consumer Behaviour Patterns

Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2004

Brands are successful because people prefer them to ordinary products. In addition to the psychological factors already mentioned, brands give consumers the means whereby they can make choices and judgments. The secret to successful branding is to influence the decisions the way in which...

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