We investigate the causal effect of market structure on market performance in the consumer electronics. We combine data from Austria's largest online site for price comparisons with retail data on wholesale prices provided by a major hardware producer for consumer electronics. We observe input...

Mining customer shopping data is able for business managers to understand and predict customer behavior. However, most practices are focusing on the purchasing goods, i.e. basket analysis. This article collects customer shopping data by observation to systematically discover customer shopping...

India's market is consumer driven market The Indian consumer segment is broadly segregated into urban and rural markets, and is attracting marketers from across the world. India has a young demographic and a middle class with rising disposable income. India is a multi-culture country with high...

Researches over the years have posited that most of the purchasing decisions made by shoppers are unplanned and mostly made inside the store. Every year retailers spend huge amount on in-store promotion and store environment to gain consumers' attention and stimulate them for such impulsive...

In the early 70s, the retail landscape of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA) was mostly confined to the Lisbon downtown. However, the retail landscape is changing at a rapid pace. In the mid-80s, two focus of retail competition (Amoreiras Shopping Center and Roma Avenue) appeared out-of-city...

Institutional barriers to entry were removed to a considerable extent in 1996 in the Dutch retail sector. Three years before that the regulator decided to not take legal actions anymore against entrants violating institutional requirements. In the current analysis we investigate the effects of...