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Retail productivity
Griffith, Rachel; Harmgart, Heike - 2005
Recent attention has focused on the UK's productivity gap in the retail sector. Figure 1 shows an estimate of labour productivity in retail across countries, using output per hour worked. The UK lies well behind the US, France and Germany. Reynolds at al (2005) contribute to this debate by...
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Merger control in differentiated product industries
Mariuzzo, Franco; Walsh, Patrick Paul; Whelan, Ciara - 2005
Thresholds defined on the level and change in the HHI (Herfindahl-Hirschmann Index) applied to market shares seem to be the main instrument to select notified mergers for investigation in both the EU and US. We question the use of such a selection rule in differentiated products industries. We...
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Resale Price Maintenance: Hurting Competitors, Consumers and Yourself
Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - 2011
Improving retailers' incentives for service is a prominent efficiency defense for resale price maintenance (RPM). We investigate the incentives of symmetric manufacturers to use RPM when selling products through common retailers who provide services such as pre-sale advice. We show that the...
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Why Parallel Trade May Raise Producers' Profits
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2005
This paper shows that a manufacturer may benefit from parallel trade. In addition to an intuitive condition about the effect of demand shocks, this occurs when competitive retailers must order inventories before they know the realization of demand and for products whose sale value drops at the...
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The Virtual Location of E-Tailers: Evidence from a B2C E-Commerce Market
Häring, Julia - 2005
An Internet retailer?s (e-tailer?s) outstanding virtual location enhances the probability of being noticed by potential customers. The notion of a virtual location for e-tailers refers to the analogy to the physical location. In the empirical analysis, an e-tailer?s Internet search engine rank...
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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 this process. The analysis shows that by raising product...
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A micro-econometric approach to geographic market definition in local retail markets: Demand side considerations
Beckert, Walter - 2010
This paper formalizes an empirically implementable framework for the definition of local antitrust markets in retail markets. This framework rests on a demand model that captures the trade-off between distance and pecuniary cost across alternative shopping destinations within local markets. The...
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International trade and retailing
Eckel, Carsten - 2009
The New Trade Theory predicts that international trade lowers prices for consumers and expands the choices available to them. This study shows that both predictions may no longer hold once adjustments in the retail sector are taken into account. I present a new model of retailing in general...
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Deregulation of shopping hours: The impact on independent retailers and chain stores
Wenzel, Tobias - 2010
This paper studies shopping hour decisions by retail chains and independent competitors. We use a Salop-type model where retailers compete in prices and shopping hours. Our results depend significantly on efficiency differences between retail chain and independent retailer. If the efficiency...
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Die Regulierung des Einzelhandels in Italien: Grundlagen und Einfluss auf die Handelsstruktur
Potz, Petra - 2002
Der Internationalisierungsprozess im Einzelhandel lässt sich in den meisten Ländern Europas an einer ähnlich … hat. Im Vergleich zu den meisten anderen europäischen Ländern war der italienische Einzelhandel in besonders hohem Maße … starken sektoralen Regulierung im Einzelhandel durch den Staat und der weitgehend unabhängig davon ablaufenden planerischen …
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