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Income and Wealth Effects on Private-Label Demand : Evidence from the Great Recession
Dubé, Jean-Pierre - 2015
We measure the causal effects of income and wealth on the demand for private-label products. Prior research suggests that these effects are large and, in particular, that private-label demand rises during recessions. Our empirical analysis is based on a comprehensive household-level transactions...
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The Strategic Positioning of Store Brands in Retailer - Manufacturer Bargaining
Scott Morton, Fiona M.; Zettelmeyer, Florian - 2021
We argue in this paper that retailers can strategically position store brands in product space to strengthen their bargaining position when negotiating supply terms with manufacturers of national brands. Using a bargaining framework we model a retailer's decision whether to carry an additional...
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What Can the Price Gap between Branded and Private Label Products Tell Us About Markups?
Barsky, Robert; Bergen, Mark E.; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, … - 2022
In this paper we investigate the size of markups for nationally branded products sold in the U.S. retail grocery industry. Using scanner data from a large Midwestern supermarket chain, we compute several measures of upper and lower bounds on markup ratios for over 230 nationally branded products...
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Freedom to Trade and the Competitive Process
Edlin, Aaron S. - 2011
Although antitrust courts sometimes stress the competitive process, they have not deeply explored what that process is. Inspired by the theory of the core, we explore the idea that the competitive process is the process of sellers and buyers forming improving coalitions. Much of antitrust can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129134
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Bailouts and the Preservation of Competition
Roberts, James W. - 2011
Governments rescue private companies partly to prevent other firms from gaining excessive market power. However, if failing firms exit, new entry may limit remaining firms' market power if there are potential entrants who can be as effective competitors as the firms leaving the market. We...
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Estimating the Cream Skimming Effect of School Choice
Altonji, Joseph G. - 2010
We develop a framework that may be used to determine the degree to which a school choice program may harm public school stayers by luring the best students to other schools. This framework results in a simple formula showing that the "cream-skimming" effect is increasing in the degree of...
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Exclusionary Minimum Resale Price Maintenance
Asker, John - 2010
incumbent manufacturer transfer profits to retailers. If entry is accommodated, upstream competition leads to fierce down …- stream competition and the breakdown of RPM. Hence, via RPM, retailers internalize the effect of accommodating entry on the … effect of a retailer cartel. We also consider the effect of imperfect competition. Empirical and policy implications are …
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Valuing Identity
Fryer, Roland G. - 2010
in a hierarchy. The problem of designing an efficient policy to raise the status in this competition of a disadvantaged …
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Do Competitive Work Places Deter Female Workers? A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment on Gender Differences in Job-Entry Decisions
Flory, Jeffrey - 2010
different compensation regimes. By varying the role that individual competition plays in setting the wage, we are able to … explore whether competition, by itself, can cause differential job entry. The data highlight the power of the compensation …
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Do Product Market Regulations in Upstream Sectors Curb Productivity Growth? Panel Data Evidence for OECD Countries
Bourlès, Renaud - 2010
the effects of upstream competition vary with distance to frontier on a panel of 15 OECD countries and 20 sectors over …
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