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Internet Retail Demand : Taxes, Geography, and Online-Offline Competition

Ellison, Glenn - 2006

Data on sales of memory modules are used to explore several aspects of e-retail demand. There is a strong relationship between e-retail sales to a given state and sales tax rates that apply to purchases from online retailers. This suggests that there is substantial substitution between online...

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The Dominance of Retail Stores

Ziegler, Alexandre - 2003

Most items are sold to consumers by retail stores. Stores have two features that distinguish them from auctions. First, the price is posted and a consumer who values the good at more than the posted price is sold the good. Second, the sale takes place as soon as the consumer decides to buy. In...

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Selling Subscriptions

Einav, Liran; Klopack, Benjamin; Mahoney, Neale - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Retailers are increasingly selling goods and services via subscriptions instead of spot markets. In this paper, we study one benefit to the retailer of selling subscriptions: the possibility that - presumably because of inattention or inertia - consumers continue to pay for subscriptions after...

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Determinants of Health Insurance Enrollment and Health Expenditure in Ghana : An Empirical Analysis

Adjei-Mantey, Kwame; Horioka, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper analyzes the determinants of health insurance enrollment and health expenditure in Ghana using micro data … from wave 7 of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS 7) with emphasis on the role of risk preferences and the … in Ghana because its public health insurance system (the National Health Insurance Scheme or NHIS) is, in theory …

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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

Sellers of new products are faced with having to guess demand conditions to set price appropriately. But sellers are able to adjust price over time and to learn from past mistakes. Additionally, it is not necessary that all goods be sold with certainty. It is sometimes better to set a high price...

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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-cigarette sales, and sales of other tobacco products. We use the Nielsen Retail Scanner data from 2011 to 2017, comprising approximately 35,000 retailers nationally. We calculate a...

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