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The Strategic Positioning of Store Brands in Retailer - Manufacturer Bargaining
Morton, Fiona Scott - 2000
We argue in this paper that retailers can strategically position store brands in product space to strengthen their bargaining position when negotiating supply terms with manufacturers of national brands. Using a bargaining framework we model a retailer's decision whether to carry an additional...
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Entrepreneurship During the COVID-19 Pandemic : Evidence from the Business Formation Statistics
Haltiwanger, John C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Applications for new businesses from the U.S. Census Bureau's monthly and weekly Business Formation Statistics (BFS) fell substantially in the early stages of the pandemic but then surged in the second half of 2020. This surge has continued through May 2021. The pace of applications since...
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Creative Destruction? Impact of E-Commerce on the Retail Sector
Chava, Sudheer; Oettl, Alexander; Singh, Manpreet; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using an administrative payroll dataset for 2.6 million retail workers, we find that the staggered rollout of a major e-commerce firm's fulfillment centers reduces traditional retail workers' income in geographically proximate counties by 2.4%. Wages of hourly workers, especially part-time...
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Customers and Retail Growth
Einav, Liran; Klenow, Peter J.; Levin, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using Visa debit and credit card transactions in the U.S. from 2016 to 2019, we document the importance of customers in accounting for sales variation across merchants, across stores within retail chains, and over time for individual merchants and stores. Customers, as opposed to transactions...
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Retail Pricing and Clearance Sales
Lazear, Edward P. - 1984
pricing behavior and the time distribution of transactions. Prices start high and fall as afunction of time on the shelf. The … "window shoppers," and other observable characteristics. In a simplecase, when prices are set optimally, the probability of …
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The Effects of E-Cigarette Taxes on E-Cigarette Prices and Tobacco Product Sales : Evidence from Retail Panel Data
Cotti, Chad D. - 2020
We explore the effect of e-cigarette taxes enacted in eight states and two large counties on e-cigarette prices, e …
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The Industrial Revolution in Services
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2019
The rise in national industry concentration in the US between 1977 and 2013 is driven by a new industrial revolution in three broad non-traded sectors: services, retail, and wholesale. Sectors where national concentration is rising have increased their share of employment, and the expansion is...
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How Costly is Turnover? Evidence from Retail
Kuhn, Peter J. - 2019
Identifying the causal effects of turnover on organizational productivity is challenging, due to data constraints and endogeneity issues. We address these challenges by using day-to-day variation in the composition and performance of small retail sales teams, and by exploiting an advance notice...
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Prices and Promotions in U.S. Retail Markets : Evidence from Big Data
Hitsch, Günter J. - 2019
conclusions based on the prices for close to 50,000 products (UPC's) in 17,184 stores that belong to 81 different retail chains … product at the market level. Prices and promotions are more homogenous at the retail chain than at the market level. In … particular, within local markets, prices and promotions are substantially more similar within stores that belong to the same …
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More Amazon Effects : Online Competition and Pricing Behaviors
Cavallo, Alberto - 2018
past 10 years. These changes make retail prices more sensitive to aggregate ``nationwide" shocks, increasing the pass …-through of both gas prices and nominal exchange rate fluctuations …
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