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The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms
Antras, Pol; Fort, Teresa C.; Tintelnot, Felix - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper studies the extensive and intensive margins of firms' global sourcing decisions. We develop a quantifiable multi-country sourcing model in which heterogeneous firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country-specific variables. The model delivers a simple...
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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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A Dynamic Model of Price Discrimination and Inventory Management at the Fulton Fish Market
Graddy, Kathryn; Hall, George - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
individual prices, and thus engage in third-degree price discrimination. Simulated prices and quantities from the model exhibit … market. The model's predictions are then compared to the case in which the dealer must post a single price to all customers …. We find the cost to the dealer of posting a uniform price to be extremely small. …
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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
city-level panel grocery price data matched with a unique data set on Walmart and warehouse club locations, we find that … competing with Costco along non-price dimensions such as product quality or quality of the shopping experience. We find no …
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Equilibrium Price Dynamics in Perishable Goods Markets: The Case of Secondary Markets for Major League Baseball Tickets
Sweeting, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper analyzes the dynamics of prices in two online secondary markets for Major League Baseball tickets. Controlling for ticket quality, prices tend to decline significantly as a game approaches. The paper describes and tests alternative theoretical explanations for why this happens in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718773
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The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density
Holmes, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
The roll-out of Wal-Mart store openings followed a pattern that radiated from the center out with Wal-Mart maintaining high store density and a contiguous store network all along the way. This paper estimates the benefits of such a strategy to Wal-Mart, focusing on the savings in distribution...
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Competition in Large Markets
Campbell, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This paper develops a simple and robust implication of free entry followed by competition without substantial strategic interactions: Increasing the number of consumers leaves the distributions of producers' prices and other choices unchanged. In many models featuring non-trivial strategic...
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Banning Foreign Pharmacies from Sponsored Search: The Online Consumer Response
Chesnes, Matthew; Weijia (Daisy) Dai; Jin, Ginger Zhe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Increased competition from the Internet has raised a concern of product quality for online prescription drugs. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prohibits the importation of unapproved drugs into the US and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) emphasizes their illegality...
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