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 …

Trade and innovation cause structural change. Productive factors must flow from declining to growing industries. Banks … advantage and trade, and can magnify the gains from trade liberalization. The analysis shows how insolvency laws, minimum … capital standards, and cost of bank equity determine credit reallocation, sectoral expansion and trade patterns. …

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 …

recycling firms to compensate for the savings in disposal costs. We study trade between resource poor economies exporting final … goods, and resource rich countries exporting raw materials. We find rich welfare effects of trade policy with non …-trivial interactions between terms of trade effects and distortions in recycling and resource extraction. …

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 …