Das ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung hat eine private Stiftung geprüft, deren primäre Aufgabe die Weiterbildung von Führungskräften und die Förderung des Führungsnachwuchses im inhabergeführten Einzelhandel ist. Dieser Beitrag setzt die Ergebnisse des Gutachtens, soweit es um...

Das ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung hat eine private Stiftung geprüft, deren primäre Aufgabe die Weiterbildung von Führungskräften und die Förderung des Führungsnachwuchses im inhabergeführten Einzelhandel ist. Dieser Beitrag setzt die Ergebnisse des Gutachtens, soweit es um...

Aldi, the biggest discounter in Germany, started to systematically extend shopping hours of its stores in 2016. We interpret the decision to extend opening hours of a specific Aldi store as entry into a new market. By using a novel data set containing the opening hours of nearly all German...

The last decade has witnessed an acceleration of retail foreign direct investment into a range of emerging markets across East Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America, led by a small cohort of food and general merchandise retailers from Western Europe, and to a lesser extent, North...

An extensive literature on the transformation of food retailing in developing countries by the expansion of supermarkets has highlighted the implications of the concentration of food value chains for the continued incorporation of small farmers in fresh produce supply. A critical examination of...

The private brands (PB) of corporate retailers are booming in Korea. This paper examines the effect of the rise of PB on Korean retail and manufacturing. By utilizing both store-level data and firm-level data, I find that the expansion of PB elevates the profits of corporate retailers but does...

I address the degree to which variation in exposure to e-commerce is associated with entry and exit in the retail industry at the county level. To measure exposure to e-commmerce, I rely on within-state variation in relative search frequency for the phrase “amazon prime” as reported by...

Based on the publicly available information on the data sources and methodology used by the Census Bureau to estimate e-commerce and physical retail sales, and based on detailed e-mail communications with the Census official responsible for the retail trade data, we found, in a version of this...

In this paper we use a novel natural experiment where firms were randomly allocated differently sized retail chains to study the effects of firm scale and market concentration on outcomes for both firms and consumers. Beginning in 2014, Washington State used a lottery to allocate licenses to...

The importance of CSR has recently increased in all economic sectors. Particularly in the retail sector, large international retailers are investing heavily to cope with the ethical demands of consumers and increase their own awareness of CSR issues. Key international retailers have begun to...