Narrow search
Showing 1 - 5 of 5
Cover Image
Imports, pass-through, and the structure of retail markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2009
We construct a model of trade with heterogeneous retailers to examine the effects of trade liberalization on retail …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888981
Cover Image
Buyer power in international markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2009
This paper investigates the implications for international markets of the existence of retailers/wholesalers with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872802
Cover Image
Manufacturers and retailers in the global economy
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2011
We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in order to understand how these two industries interact and how labor is allocated between them. We show that the observed shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230887
Cover Image
Why parallel trade may raise producers profits
Raff, Horst (contributor); Schmitt, Nicolas (contributor) - 2005
effect of demand shocks, this occurs when competitive retailers must order inventories before they know the realization of … retailers trade unsold inventories generally results in larger orders placed with the manufacturer, higher manufacturer profit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003112697
Cover Image
Incentives through inventory control in supply chains
Zhan, Qu; Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2017
The paper shows that taking inventory control out of the hands of competitive or exclusive retailers and assigning it … because doing so solves incentive distortions that arise when retailers have to allocate inventory across sales periods, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742575