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International trade and retail market performance and structure : theory and empirical evidence
Meinen, Philipp; Raff, Horst - 2018
Based on a theoretical model featuring heterogeneous retailers that may source globally and operate as chains, we derive a number of hypotheses that link trade integration to retail firm performance and to the structure of retail markets. We empirically test these predictions using Danish...
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Tariffs passing through retailers : do tariffs actually protect domestic manufacturers?
Cole, Matthew T.; Eckel, Carsten - 2014
Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy are based on theoretical models that assume foreign manufacturers sell directly to consumers. However, recent empirical evidence suggests that wholesalers and retailers play an...
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The limits of marketplace fee discrimination
Tremblay, Mark J. - 2021
greater retail competition. These effects mitigate distortions from fee discrimination and improve welfare. In terms of policy …
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Promotion ban and heterogeneity in retail prices during the great lockdown
Hindriks, Jean; Madio, Leonardo; Serse, Valerio - 2021
We study the impact of the Belgium lockdown on retail prices using a unique dataset tracking daily prices and promotions for various products in different stores and retail chains. Two distinctive features of our analysis are the ban on promotions during the first two weeks of the lockdown, and...
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The impact of private label introduction on assortment, prices, and profits of retailers
Ma, Meilin; Siebert, Ralph - 2021
We study how the introduction of private-label brands (PLs) affects retailers' prices, demand, and profits, explicitly accounting for assortment adjustments of national brands (NBs) in retail stores. Using a detailed dataset on the U.S. beef market, we find that, when PLs are added to the...
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Product differentiation and oligopoly : a network approach
Pellegrino, Bruno - 2023
corporations in the USA, using publicly-available data. Using the model, I compute firm-level markups and decompose them into: 1) a … extent of competition from substitute products. I estimate that, in 2019, public corporations produced consumer surplus in …
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Why do prices differ across stores? : differential competition environments and their price impacts
Klein, Gordon Jochem; Siebert, Ralph Bernd - 2024
competition environments affect product prices. Using big data, we find that price variations are caused mainly by differential … competitive environments. More specifically, we find that Brand Competition Within Stores exerts the largest downward pressure on … prices. A 10 percent increase in the number of brands reduces prices by about 10 percent. Product Competition Within Stores …
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Apparent competition in two-sided platforms
Guven, Gokhan; Inci, Eren; Russo, Antonio - 2017
prices and features of goods without incurring search costs. The platform alleviates sellers' competition by charging them …
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Competing with asking prices
Lester, Benjamin; Visschers, Ludo; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2016
In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller will take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that a buyer can submit an offer below the asking price and that this offer may be accepted if the seller...
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Piracy and competition
Belleflamme, Paul (contributor);  … - 2004
that competition drives prices up and reduces total surplus. …
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