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Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector

Basker, Emek - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2011

, and 1982 Census of Retail Trade, matched to data on store scanner installations, to estimate scanners’ effect on labor …

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Supersize It: The Growth of Retail Chains and the Rise of the "Big Box" Retail Format

Basker, Emek; Klimek, Shawn; Van, Pham Hoang - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2008

This paper documents and explains the recent rise of "big-box" general merchandisers. Data from the Census of Retail … Trade for 1977-2007 show that general-merchandise chains grew much faster than specialist retail chains, and that general …

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Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector

Basker, Emek - Economics Department, University of Missouri - 2011

Retail Trade, matched to data on store scanner installations, to estimate scanners' effect on labor productivity. I find that …

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Taken by Storm: Business Financing, Survival, and Contagion in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Basker, Emek; Miranda, Javier - Economics Department, University of Missouri - 2014

We use hurricane Katrina's damage to the Mississippi coast in 2005 as a natural experiment to study business survival in the aftermath of a capital-destruction shock. We find very high exit rates for businesses that incurred physical damage, particularly for small firms and less-productive...

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Does Wal-Mart Sell Inferior Goods?

Basker, Emek - Economics Department, University of Missouri - 2008

I estimate the aggregate income elasticity of Wal-Mart's and Target's revenues using quarterly data for 1997-2006. I find that Wal-Mart's revenues increase during bad times, whereas Target's revenues decrease, consistent with Wal-Mart selling "inferior goods" in the technical sense of the term....

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The Causes and Consequences of Wal-Mart's Growth

Basker, Emek - Economics Department, University of Missouri - 2006

Wal-Mart is the largest company in the world, yet little is known about its economic impact. This essay discusses what is known about Wal-Mart's competitive advantage and its economic impact on local communities, as well as the national and global economy, and highlights the open questions to be...

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'Twas Four Weeks before Christmas: Retail Sales and the Length of the Christmas Shopping Season

Basker, Emek - Economics Department, University of Missouri - 2004

day after US Thanksgiving) on aggregate retail sales. I find a statistically significant increase in per-capita retail …

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Supersize It - The Growth of Retail Chains and the Rise of the "Big Box" Retail Format

Basker, Emek; Klimek, Shawn; Van, Pham Hoang - Economics Department, University of Missouri - 2008

We offer a theory for the complementarity between the size of a retail chain and the scope of its business to explain … micro data from the Census of Retail Trade for 1977-2002. Retail chains with more stores carry more distinct product lines … and as retail chains grow they add both stores and product lines. On average, we find that a chain adds one product line …

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Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector

Basker, Emek - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4 (2012) 3, pp. 1-27

, and 1982 Census of Retail Trade, matched to data on store scanner installations, to estimate scanners' effect on labor …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599124

Wal-Mart as Catalyst to U.S.-China Trade

Basker, Emek; Hoang, Van Pham - Development and Policies Research Center (Depocen) - 2011

Retail chains and imports of consumer goods from developing countries have grown sharply over the past 25 years. Wal ….S. imports from China increased 30-fold. We relate these trends using a model in which scale economies in retail interact with …

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