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 experienced stronger-than-average productivity growth that has not …

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 and online retail, and tax avoidance may be an important contributor to e-retail …

Most items are sold to consumers by retail stores. Stores have two features that distinguish them from auctions. First … duplicate purchases. Retail stores dominate auctions when the good is perishable and/or becomes obsolete quickly, when the …

prohibit retail activity on Sunday, known as %u201Cblue laws.%u201D Many states have repealed these laws in recent years …, that allowing retail activity on Sundays will lower attendance levels but may increase or decrease religious donations. We …

We consider retail leases with landlord overages options, with tenant renewal options, with both and with neither. We … premium on retail real estate is shown. The appropriate risky discount rate for the overage lease is calculated to be 75 to …

the economy. In 1919, the Fed began tabulating data by about retail sales, which it viewed as a fundamental measure of … consumption. From 1920 until 1929, the Federal Reserve published data about retail sales each month by Federal Reserve district …, but ceased to do so after 1929. It continued to compile monthly data on retail sales by reserve district, but this data …

export capabilities of local suppliers. Evidence from Chinese city-level retail goods exports supports the capability …

features prices across retail locations around the world, suggesting that variable mark-ups play a key role in accounting for …

is changed. At the retail-store level, at least, where dozens of products are sold by a single price-setter, price …