We investigate how the coronavirus pandemic affected the demand for online food shopping services using data from the … largest agri-food e-commerce platform in Taiwan. We find that an additional confirmed case of COVID-19 increased sales by 5 … coverage and online content. Because Taiwan did not impose a stay-at-home order, the demand for online food shopping may be …

moving from a Pareto to a lognormal distribution allows the Melitz model to match the role of the intensive margin in the EDD …. We use likelihood methods and the EDD to estimate a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm …

to make its distribution network in both space and time. Indivisibilities are found to create significant scale economies … in distribution …

where this discrepancy between the short- and long-run elasticities is due to frictions in distribution. Goods need to be … combined with a local non-traded input, distribution capital, which is good specific. Home and foreign goods may be close … substitutes, but if distribution capital is slow to adjust then agents cannot shift their consumption in the short run following a …

domestic distribution network to reach more buyers. Both elements require scale economies and lead to increased wholesaler … has benefits. Buyers gain access to globally sourced varieties, nationwide distribution networks, and increased quality …

both influencer and product markets. As outreach and distribution technologies improve, influencer payoffs and income …

smaller production and losses of workers. On the demand side, global buyers were not able to shift sourcing to Kenyan …

costs of changing production as well as substantial costs of being away from target inventory, the latter being a function … characteristics of the demand process. In the automobile industry, inventory behavior is destabilizing: the variance of production is …

-level production and input factor choices are affected by payroll taxes …