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In this paper we study the relationship between cultural heritage and retail store dynamics at the neighbourhood level … in the Netherlands. We analyze the total number of stores, number of vacant stores and number of stores by retail sub … whether the presence of cultural heritage has a causal impact on the retail activity in neighbourhoods using an instrumental …
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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...
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This paper investigates the determinants of the productivity of independent retail stores in Sweden by focusing on the … analysis utilizes Swedish store-level data for the years 2002-2008. To capture the urban-periphery interaction in retail …
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work in retail or wholesale. …
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availability of land for retail; in addition 'town-centre-first' policy concentrates retail development on expensive central land … and so increases the cost of retail space. In British cities in the mid 1980s the most expensive land for retail was 250 … times as expensive as the most expensive retail land in comparable US cities. This paper uses a unique micro data set of …
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transportation and warehousing, industries complementary to e-commerce. Within the in-state retail sector, the decline in brick … general equilibrium model in which consumers substitute e-commerce for big-box purchases, crowding out brick-and-mortar retail. …
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reduces the entrepreneurship in the retail, hotel, and catering sectors. In addition, we show that e-commerce prosperity fuels …-commerce development across counties in the People's Republic of China and assess its impact on entrepreneurship in both rural and urban … change of household entrepreneurship. It promotes the entrepreneurship in the manufacturing and wholesale sectors, but …
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The retail business, in India, is estimated to grow at 13 per cent per annum from US$ 322 billion in 2006-07 to US$ 590 … billion in 2011-12. The unorganized retail sector is expected to grow at about 10 per cent per annum from US$ 309 billion 2006 …-07 to US$ 496 billion in 2011-12. Organized retail which now constitutes a small four per cent of retail sector in 2006 …
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We use hedonic prices and purchase quantities to consider what can be learned about household willingness to pay for baskets of organic products and how this varies across households. We use rich scanner data on food purchases by a large number of households to compute household specific lower...
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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. -- International trade ; retailing …
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