This paper examines the effect of entry of large foreign retailers on local employment at the city level. Using a panel … data for the period 2000-2006, we find that entry of large retailers largely increases employment in wholesale and retail … sector and other related sector in the year of entry. The positive effect on employment in wholesale and retail sector …

In the entry literature, researchers sometimes use revenues as a proxy for profits because this is the only data …

Many states allow existing retail vehicle dealerships to challenge the entry of new competitors. Earlier studies found … work was also conducted prior to the development of Internet shopping. This study tests the impact of state entry … restrictions using a new data set that addresses these issues. Regression analysis finds that states having entry restrictions on …

We study the effect of entry on the price distribution in the German retail gasoline market. Exploiting more than 700 … entries over five years in an event study design, we find that entry causes a persistent first-order stochastic shift in the … to 12% of stations' gross margins. Consumers with easy access to information on prices gain the most from entry. The …

We are interested in evaluating the impact of restrictive planning regulation on entry into the UK grocery retail …

We use a dynamic oligopoly model of entry and exit to evaluate how entry regulations affect profitability and market … stores in Sweden, we find that the average entry costs for small and large stores are 10 and 18 percent lower, respectively …, in markets with liberal compared with restrictive regulations. Counterfactual simulations show that lower entry costs in …

This paper analyzes the competition between two spatially differentiated multi-product retailers who encounter entry … from a dominant discount retailer. Our primary objective is to determine how entry affects the pricing and relative profits … products demanded. Results show that in the post entry equilibrium, the prices for the products not offered by the discounter …

stores entering the Swedish retail food market during the period 1994-2002. It was found that uncertainty affected the entry …-decision. Entry was less frequent in highly concentrated local retail food-markets characterized by a high degree of uncertainty …, whereas higher profit opportunities seem to have increased the probability of entry. …

This paper examines, using a zero-inflated negative binomial regression model, what determined entry into the Swedish … seemed to attract more entry into retail trade industries, while recent entry and higher total industry sales were associated … with more entry into both retail and wholesale trade local markets. …