work of several of the authors, to consider how the growth of large supermarket chains affects competition in food … European competition policy more generally, such as lawyers, civil servants and consultancy groups, will find this volume …

regulation in Portugal / João Castro and Agostinho Franco -- 4. Competition through downstream access in the UK postal sector … of postal services / Philippe De Donder ... [et al.] -- 11. Postal price elasticities and intermedia competition : a …

'big data', and to examine competition in specific retail sectors including gasoline stations, automobile dealerships …pt. I. Development -- pt. II. Vertical organization -- pt. III. Horizontal organization and competition -- pt. IV … patterns to US merger policy in the retail context, the rise of the Internet, and consumer-to-consumer sales. The chapters …

This book provides a uniform and coherent approach to the analysis of distribution systems in general and retail … systems in particular. It develops the fundamentals of retail demand and supply, and demonstrates how the provision of … distribution services is a principal determinant of economic outcomes in retail exchanges for both retailers and their customers …

the burgeoning multidisciplinary literature on the globalization of retailing. In addition to focusing on the retail … corporations and their expansionary strategies, it explores the multi-faceted impacts of retail globalization on host economies and … profiles the store and sourcing dimensions of transnational retail activity. These volumes are of particular interest to …

Paul R. Kleindorfer -- Regulating prices and service quality / Dan Elliott -- Utility regulation and competition in …

"If Design is about forming materials, then what are the materials of Service Design? In this ground-breaking book … of service design, discussing materials as a means to study what service design is and could be. Exploring the contours … has been understood as a material in design. With insights from expert practitioners in the field, chapters then examine a …