This paper investigates the determinants of the productivity of independent retail stores in Sweden by focusing on the … analysis utilizes Swedish store-level data for the years 2002–2008. To capture the urban-periphery interaction in retail …

Entry of large ("big-box") stores along with a drastic fall in the number of stores are striking trends in retail. We … process and accounting for prices, local markets, and the endogeneity of entry. Using data on all retail food stores in Sweden …

a dynamic structural model to evaluate the role of local market entry regulations in the productivity of retail trade … local markets. We combine the structural approach with detailed data on all stores in the Swedish retail industry. The …

structure in retail. The model incorporates demand and store-level heterogeneity. Based on unique data for all retail food …

-rational modes underlie both the erratic perturbations of entrepreneurship and the systematic waves of diffusion they initiate which … possible by financial intermediation. They imply asymmetric changes in individual welfare. The markets for entrepreneurship …

Taxation theory rarely takes entrepreneurship into consideration. We discuss how this omission affects conclusions … entrepreneurship often omitted by standard capital taxation theory are incorporated into the analysis. This includes the lack of a well …. When unique attributes of entrepreneurship are taken into account, some major conclusions of capital taxation models no …