Рассматривается динамика развития рынка розничной торговли Украины и его влияния на ВВП страны. Анализируются изменения потребительских предпочтений и...

Media and academic attention to the art market has mostly focused on the high end, composed of famous auction houses and a few well-known international dealers. In this paper, we use a newly developed database to examine the industry structure and location patterns of the broader New York art...

This paper considers the simultaneous determination of residential density and the supply of local versus remote retail services. Possible equilibrium development patterns either correspond closely to what anti-sprawl activists describe as smart growth, or to its opposite. Equilibrium and...

In enclosed shopping centres, stores benefit from the positive externalities of other stores in the centre. Some stores provide greater benefits to their neighbours than others – for example anchor tenants and brand leading stores. In managing shopping centres, these positive externalities...

In this paper we solve the gravity (Huff) model for the competitive facility location problem. We show that the generalized Weiszfeld procedure converges to a local maximum or a saddle point. We also devise a global optimization procedure that finds the optimal solution within a given accuracy....

<b>RESUMEN</b><br> <br> La proliferación de centros comerciales en España ha hecho más compleja la localización de nuevos establecimientos, una decisión que actualmente requiere la comparación minuciosa del potencial de compra de las posibles ubicaciones. Este estudio propone un método para comparar el...

Poor urban neighborhoods are often referred to as “food deserts”, lacking in grocery stores and healthy food vendors. However, most empirical studies of food deserts have been small scale, focusing on limited geographies and a narrow range of products. Standard retail location models, which...

One of the most notable changes in the U.S. retail market over the past twenty years has been the rise of Big Box stores, retail chains characterized by physically large stores selling a wide range of consumer goods at discount prices. A growing literature has examined the impacts of Big Box...