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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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Promotion ban and heterogeneity in retail prices during the great lockdown
Hindriks, Jean; Madio, Leonardo; Serse, Valerio - 2021
promotions during the first two weeks of the lockdown, and the presence of local pricing retail chains (LP) competing with … uniform (national) pricing retail chains (UP). We decompose the price changes into the regular price, the frequency, and the …
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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 to a manufacturer increases the value of a supply chain especially for goods whose demand is highly volatile. This is because doing so solves incentive distortions that arise...
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International trade and retailing
Eckel, Carsten - 2009
The New Trade Theory predicts that international trade lowers prices for consumers and expands the choices available to them. This study shows that both predictions may no longer hold once adjustments in the retail sector are taken into account. I present a new model of retailing in general...
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Algorithmic pricing and competition : empirical evidence from the German retail gasoline market
Assad, Stephanie; Clark, Robert; Ershov, Daniel; Xu, Lei - 2020
Economic theory provides ambiguous and conflicting predictions about the association between algorithmic pricing and … where algorithmic-pricing software became widely available by mid-2017, and for which we have access to comprehensive, high …-frequency price data. Because adoption dates are unknown, we identify gas stations that adopt algorithmic-pricing software by testing …
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Optimal pricing and endogenous herding
Bose, Subir; Orosel, Gerhard O.; Vesterlund, Lise - 2002
monopolist s optimal pricing strategy and its implications for the temporal pattern of prices and for herding. The analysis is …
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Preemption in capacity and price determination : a study of endogenous timing of decisions for homogeneous markets
Güth, Sandra; Güth, Werner - 2000
Endogenous timing can help to derive the time structure of decision making instead of assuming it as exogenously given. In our study we consider a homogeneous market where, like in the model of Kreps and Scheinkman (1983), sellers determine sales capacities before prices. Sellers must serve...
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Induced price leadership and (counter-)spying rivals' play under incomplete information
Fan, Cuihong; Chŏn, Pyŏng-hŏn; Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2019
immunize against spying by delaying its pricing decision if its cost is low. This, however, adversely affects beliefs and …
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Salience and online sales : the role of brand image concerns
Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Köster, Mats - 2017
We provide a novel intuition for the observation that many brand manufacturers have restricted their retailers' ability … to resell brand products online. Our approach builds on models of salience according to which price disparities across …
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Identifying state dependence in brand choice : evidence from hurricanes
Levine, Julia; Seiler, Stephan - 2022
We analyze structural state dependence in brand choice using variation from brand switching during stock-outs caused by … brand switching due to stock-outs. …
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