Assortment decisions are key strategic instruments for firms responding to local market conditions. We assess this … well as composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in the … led the merging parties to reposition their assortment and increase average category prices. While the low-variety and low …

composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in the merger’s effects … the merging parties to reposition their assortment to avoid cannibalization in the areas where they directly competed … before the merger. While the low-variety target’s stores reduced the depth of their assortment when in direct competition …

This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

itself) to a sizable and statistically significant increase in trade between the member countries of EMU. In this paper, we … put the trade effect of the euro in historical perspective. We argue that the creation of the EMU was a continuation (or … strong evidence of a gradual increase in trade intensity between European countries. Once we control for this trend in trade …

In this paper, I reexamine the empirical relationship between trade openness and urban concentration. Using a panel … association between trade openness and the size of a country's largest city are not robust. More importantly, the openness …-concentration link disappears completely, once reverse causality and the endogeneity of trade are accounted for. There is no evidence …