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Public Monopoly and Economic Efficiency: Evidence from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's Entry Decisions
Waldfogel, Joel; Seim, Katja - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
, prices, wholesale costs, and sales to uncover the goals implicit in its entry decisions. Does it seek to maximize profits or … configuration. An alternative to a state monopoly would be the common practice of regulated private entry. While such regimes can … given number of stores, a simple characterization of free entry with our model results in a store configuration that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532142
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Goods Prices and Availability in Cities
Weinstein, David; Handbury, Jessie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper uses detailed barcode data on purchase transactions by households in 49 U.S. cities to overcome a large number of problems that have plagued spatial price index measurement. We identify two important sources of bias. Heterogeneity bias arises from comparing different goods in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021953
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Mom-and-Pop Meet Big-Box: Complements or Substitutes?
Haltiwanger, John; Jarmin, Ron S.; Krizan, C. J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
from a single metropolitan area to quantify the impact of Big-Box store entry and growth on nearby single unit and local …-Boxes are in the same sector as the smaller stores. We find a substantial negative impact of Big-Box entry and growth on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027079
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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?
Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227923
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Urban Accounting and Welfare
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Desmet, Klaus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper proposes a simple theory of a system of cities that decomposes the determinants of the city size distribution into three main components: efficiency, amenities, and frictions. Higher efficiency and better amenities lead to larger cities, but also to greater frictions through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764667
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Agglomeration: A Dynamic Approach
Hanlon, Walker; Miscio, Antonio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper studies the sources of agglomeration economies in cities. We begin by introducing a simple dynamic spatial equilibrium model that incorporates spillovers within and across industries, as well as city-size effects. The model generates a dynamic panel-data estimation equation. We...
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Factoryless Goods Producers in the US
Bernard, Andrew B.; Fort, Teresa C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper documents the extent and characteristics of plants and firms in the US that are outside the manufacturing sector according to official government statistics but nonetheless are heavily involved in activities related to the production of manufactured goods. Using new data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951289
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Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment
Blake, Tom; Nosko, Chris; Tadelis, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Internet advertising has been the fastest growing advertising channel in recent years with paid search ads comprising the bulk of this revenue. We present results from a series of large scale field experiments done at eBay that were designed to measure the causal effectiveness of paid search...
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Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector
Basker, Emek - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Barcodes and barcode scanners transformed the grocery industry in the 1970s. I use store-level data from the 1972, 1977, and 1982 Census of Retail Trade, matched to data on store scanner installations, to estimate scanners' effect on labor productivity. I find that early scanners increased a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652909
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Competing with Costco and Sam's Club: Warehouse Club Entry and Grocery Prices
Courtemanche, Charles J.; Carden, Art - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Costco entry is associated with higher grocery prices at incumbent retailers, and that the effect is strongest in cities with … evidence that Sam's Club entry affects grocery stores' prices, consistent with Sam's Club's focus on small businesses instead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226933