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Regulation, Distribution Efficiency, and Retail Density
Flath, David - 2021
store density, which is then related to the structure of wholesale channels. Next, some details on the Large Store Law of …
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Pass-Through in Retail and Wholesale
Nakamura, Emi - 2010
This paper studies how prices comove across products, firms and locations to gauge the relative importance of retailer versus manufacturer-level shocks in determining prices. I make use of a large panel data set on prices for a cross-section of retailers in the U.S. I analyze prices at the...
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The Industrial Revolution in Services
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2019
three broad non-traded sectors: services, retail, and wholesale. Sectors where national concentration is rising have …
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Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act : A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938-1950
Costa, Dora L. - 2021
1950 by comparing workers in wholesale trade, a sector which was covered by the Act, with those in retail trade, a sector … employment in wholesale trade minimum wage provisions of the Act probably reduced it …
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The Effect of Price Advertising and Prices : Evidence in the Wake of 44 Liquormart
Milyo, Jeff; Waldfogel, Joel - 2021
In May 1996 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Rhode Island's ban on advertising prices of alcoholic beverages, making Rhode Island the subject of a natural experiment for measuring the impact of advertising on prices. Using Massachusetts prices as controls, we find that while advertising stores...
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Wealth Transfers from Implementing Real-Time Retail Electricity Pricing
Borenstein, Severin - 2021
Adoption of real-time electricity pricing %u2014 retail prices that vary hourly to reflect changing wholesale prices %u …2014 removes existing cross-subsidies to those customers that consume disproportionately more when wholesale prices are …
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Wholesalers and Retailers in U.S. Trade (Long Version)
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2010
and importers with 100 percent employment in wholesale and retail differ from pure "producer and consumer" trading firms ….S. establishments and are present in fewer U.S. states. "Mixed" firms, i.e., those with both production/consumption and wholesale retail …
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Spillovers from Ancillary Services to Wholesale Energy Markets
Buchsbaum, Jesse; Hausman, Catherine; Mathieu, Johanna; … - 2022
In electricity markets, generators are rewarded both for providing energy and for enabling grid reliability. The two functions are compensated with two separate payments: energy market payments and ancillary services market payments. We provide evidence of changes in the generation mix in the...
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Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation? Evidence from the French Retail Industry
Bertrand, Marianne; Kramarz, Francis - 2021
Does entry regulation hinder job creation? We investigate this question in the context of the French retail industry, a … or predicted by the political composition of the boards, weakened employment growth in the retail industry. Our findings … indicate that retail employment could have been more than 10% higher today had entry regulation not been introduced. Promoting …
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Does Planning Regulation Protect Independent Retailers?
Sadun, Raffaella - 2014
Regulations aimed at curbing the entry of large retail stores have been introduced in many countries to protect independent retailers. Analyzing a planning reform launched in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, I show that independent retailers were actually harmed by the creation of entry barriers...
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