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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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Search engine competition

García, Daniel - 2023

This paper studies a model of search engine competition with endogenous obfuscation. Platforms may differ in the quality of their search algorithms. I study the impact of this heterogeneity in consumer surplus, seller profits and platform revenue. I show that the dominant platform will typically...

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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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Productivity, place, and plants : revisiting the measurement

Schoefer, Benjamin; Ziv, Oren - 2021

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size, combined with finite plant counts. As a result, economies...

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The impact of horizontal mergers on market structure : evidence from the semiconductor industry

Siebert, Ralph - 2016

The U.S. and EU Merger Guidelines strongly emphasize the relevance of the "ease of entry" argument in merger evaluations. Up to now, very little is known empirically about how mergers affect entry and exit, and the resulting number of firms in the markets. We empirically test this aspect of...

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Profitable horizontal mergers without cost advantages : the role of internal organization, information, and market structure

Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A.; Müller, Wieland - 2001

Merged firms are typically rather complex organizations. Accordingly, merger has a more profound effect on the structure of a market than simply reducing the number of competitors. We show that this may render horizontal mergers profitable and welfare-improving even if costs are linear. The...

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Advertising competition in the free-to-air TV broadcasting industry

Ivaldi, Marc; Zhang, Jiekai - 2017

This paper empirically investigates the advertising competition in the French broadcast television industry within a two-sided market framework. We use a unique dataset on the French broadcast television market including audience, prices, and quantities of advertising of twenty-one TV channels...

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Salience in retailing : vertical restraints on internet sales

Helfrich, Magdalena; Herweg, Fabian - 2017 - This version: August 14, 2017

We provide an explanation for a frequently observed vertical restraint in ecommerce, namely that brand manufacturers …-quality product and limits the wholesale price a brand manufacturer can charge. If, however, the branded product is not available … price is salient in the store, this aligns the retailer's incentives with the brand manufacturer's interest to make quality …

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Do consumers buy less of a taxed good?

Kind, Hans Jarle (contributor); … - 2005

This paper shows that consumers may buy more of a taxed good if it is sold by a two-sided platform firm. Two-sided platform industries serve distinct customer groups that are connected through interdependent demand, and include major businesses such as the media industry (newspapers/magazines...

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Apparent competition in two-sided platforms

Guven, Gokhan; Inci, Eren; Russo, Antonio - 2017

We study a platform's design of membership and transaction fees when sellers compete and buyers cannot observe the prices and features of goods without incurring search costs. The platform alleviates sellers' competition by charging them transaction fees that increase with sales revenue, and...

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