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The Strategic Positioning of Store Brands in Retailer - Manufacturer Bargaining

Scott Morton, Fiona M.; Zettelmeyer, Florian - 2021

retailer's decision whether to carry an additional national brand or a store brand, and if the retailer chooses to introduce … the latter, where in product space to locate the store brand. Store brands differ from other brands in being both … store brand in a given category. We control for other motivations for carrying a store brand that have been used in the …

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Internet Retail Demand : Taxes, Geography, and Online-Offline Competition

Ellison, Glenn - 2014

Data on sales of memory modules are used to explore several aspects of e-retail demand. There is a strong relationship between e-retail sales to a given state and sales tax rates that apply to purchases from online retailers. This suggests that there is substantial substitution between online...

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Income Differences and Prices of Tradables : Insights from an Online Retailer

Simonovska, Ina - 2010

I study the positive relationship between prices of tradable goods and per-capita income. I develop a highly tractable general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and non-homothetic consumer preferences that positively links prices of tradables to consumer income....

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E-Commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries

Goldmanis, Maris - 2012

While a fast-growing body of research has looked at how the advent and diffusion of e-commerce has affected prices, much less work has investigated e-commerce's impact on the number and type of producers operating in an industry. This paper theoretically and empirically takes up the question of...

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Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models in Continuous Time with an Application to Retail Competition

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2012

This paper develops a dynamic model of retail competition and uses it to study the impact of the expansion of a new national competitor on the structure of urban markets. In order to accommodate substantial heterogeneity (both observed and unobserved) across agents and markets, the paper first...

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More Amazon Effects : Online Competition and Pricing Behaviors

Cavallo, Alberto - 2018

I study how online competition, with its algorithmic pricing technologies and the transparency of the Internet, can change the pricing behavior of large retailers and affect aggregate inflation dynamics. In particular, I show that online competition has raised both the frequency of price changes...

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The Ongoing Evolution of Us Retail : A Format Tug-of-War

Hortacsu, Ali - 2015

We review major changes in the economics of the US retail sector over the past 15-20 years and discuss what these portend for the future evolution of retail. The sector has been shrinking in relative size over the long term, though this stopped around the onset of the Great Recession. Retail has...

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Sales Taxes and Internet Commerce

Einav, Liran - 2015

We estimate the sensitivity of Internet retail purchasing to sales taxes using data from the eBay marketplace. Our first approach exploits the fact that seller locations are revealed only after buyers have expressed interest in an item by clicking on its listing. We use millions of location...

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Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers

Cavallo, Alberto - 2016

Online prices are increasingly being used for a variety of inflation measurement and research applications, yet little is know about their relation to prices collected offline, where most retail transactions take place. This paper presents the results of the first large-scale comparison of...

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Virtual Borders : Online Nominal Rigidities and International Market Segmentation

Boivin, Jean - 2010

Do prices respond to macro shocks? Does the mere presence of international frontiers hinder trade? We revisit these questions by studying a dataset of online book prices for a number of US and Canadian retailers. We believe our dataset is well suited to this task for a number of reasons: (1)...

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