Assortment decisions are key strategic instruments for firms responding to local market conditions. We assess this … well as composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in the … led the merging parties to reposition their assortment and increase average category prices. While the low-variety and low …

Assortment decisions are key strategic instruments for firms responding to local market conditions. We assess this … well as composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in the … led the merging parties to reposition their assortment and increase average category prices. While the low-variety and low …

composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in the merger's effects … the merging parties to reposition their assortment to avoid cannibalization in the areas where they directly competed … before the merger. While the low-variety target's stores reduced the depth of their assortment when in direct competition …

Assortment decisions are key strategic instruments for firms responding to local market conditions. We assess this … well as composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in the … led the merging parties to reposition their assortment and increase average category prices. While the low-variety and low …

Assortment decisions are key strategic instruments for firms responding to local market conditions. We assess this … well as composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in the … led the merging parties to reposition their assortment and increase average category prices. While the low-variety and low …

assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in pre-merger competitive conditions and … procedure. We observe that, after the merger, the assortment of the merging parties converges in markets where they are not … directly competing one with the other. Instead, the merging parties reposition their assortment to avoid cannibalization in the …

composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in the merger’s effects … the merging parties to reposition their assortment to avoid cannibalization in the areas where they directly competed … before the merger. While the low-variety target’s stores reduced the depth of their assortment when in direct competition …