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Retail city : the relationship between place attractiveness and accessibility to shops
Öner, Özge - 2015
This paper explores the role of retailers as an urban amenity. Using data for Swedish rural and city municipalities for 2002-2008, "accessibility to shops" measures are constructed for the shops in the municipalities and in the hosting regions separately to examine the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467095
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Do slotting allowances harm retail competition?
Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle - 2006
caused by inadequate assumptions of how the retail market is structured and organized. Using a formal model, we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263980
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International trade and retailing
Eckel, Carsten - 2009
them. This study shows that both predictions may no longer hold once adjustments in the retail sector are taken into … shocks. The results demonstrate that retail assortments may remain constant if consumers have a low preference for diversity …, and that consumer prices can even rise if the retail density is sufficiently low. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264598
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Liberalization of Opening Hours with Free Entry
Wenzel, Tobias - 2007
prices will remain constant, but increase in the long run. Concentration in the retail sector will rise and opening hours … will increase in two steps, immediately after deregulation and further over time. Finally, employment in the retail sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264686
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Price and Inventory Dynamics in an Oligopoly Industry: A Framework for Commodity Markets
Steinmetz, Alexander - 2010
This paper analyzes the interaction between price and inventory decisions in an oligopoly industry and its implications for the dynamics of prices. The work extends existing literature and especially the work of Hall and Rust (2007) to endogenous prices and strategic oligopoly competition. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294737
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Why Do Platforms Charge Proportional Fees? Commitment and Seller Participation
Muthers, Johannes; Wismer, Sebastian - 2012
If an intermediary offers sellers a platform to reach consumers, he may face the following hold-up problem: sellers suspect the intermediary will enter their respective product market as a merchant after they have sunk fixed costs of entry. Therefore, fearing that their investments cannot be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294746
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International trade and retailing: Diversity versus accessibility and the creation of retail deserts
Eckel, Carsten - 2007
The retail sectors in many industrialized countries have experienced a large increase in concentration and the … appearance of so-called \retail deserts\, areas of low retail provision. This study addresses the role of international trade in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300180
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International trade and retailing
Eckel, Carsten - 2009
them. This study shows that both predictions may no longer hold once adjustments in the retail sector are taken into … shocks. The results demonstrate that retail assortments may remain constant if consumers have a low preference for diversity …, and that consumer prices can even rise if the retail density is sufficiently low. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300809
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Price and inventory dynamics in an oligopoly industry: A framework for commodity markets
Steinmetz, Alexander - 2010
This paper analyzes the interaction between price and inventory decisions in an oligopoly industry and its implications for the dynamics of prices. The work extends existing literature and especially the work of Hall and Rust (2007) to endogenous prices and strategic oligopoly competition. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300834
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E-commerce and prices: Theory and evidence
Friberg, Richard; Ganslandt, Mattias; Sandström, Mikael - 2000
This paper examines the relation between prices in conventional stores and on the Internet. Main results from the theoretical analysis are i) we expect a discrete fall in prices in conventional stores as the share of the population with access to Internet reaches a critical level, ii) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281379