Research shows that grocery stores reduce prices to compete with Walmart Supercenters. This study finds evidence that … Costco entry is associated with higher grocery prices at incumbent retailers, and that the effect is strongest in cities with … grocery stores’ prices, consistent with Sam’s Club’s focus on small businesses instead of consumers. …

By using a sample of 108 products across 118 supermarket stores, we study price competition among supermarkets. The … models to analyze price competition among supermarkets. The study does include three ways of measuring the relevant market … store (the store that we have information on prices). This radius is valid for the three largest cities in Mexico (Mexico …

We consider a model of vertical competition where downstream firms (retailers) purchase an upstream input from a … introducing a large retailer, such as a Wal-Mart Supercenter, that is able to lower wholesale prices (i.e. buyer market power). We … that price competition softens substantially as a result of firms’ quality differentiation. We also investigate the effects …

use OLS and two IV specifications to estimate the effect of Wal-Marts entry on competitors prices of 24 grocery items … results using a falsification exercises, in which we test for Wal-Marts effect on prices of services that it does not provide …

prices in New England. For this purpose, we use primary price data collected on a basket of identical products from six … demographics, store characteristics, and market conditions, we estimate the average prices charged by (1) Supercenters, (2 … prices at competing stores and at distant stores, we show that the effect of Wal-Mart Supercenters is to decrease prices by 6 …

This paper evaluates alternative strategic models of competition and market structure in online retailing, and makes … retailers do, to inform consumers and to signal hidden quality attributes. Price competition may be imperfect, because of …. Advertising and revenue data for the online book market reveal that consumers respond to advertising rather than low prices. As …

We use a rich and unique dataset of 20 million daily prices in groceries and supermarkets across the country to analyze … stylized facts of the behaviour of consumer prices. Our findings are as follows: i) The median duration of prices is little … over 2 months. Therefore, retail prices in Uruguay are less sticky than in the US but stickier than in the UK. ii) We do …

We use a rich and unique dataset of 20 million daily prices in groceries and supermarkets across the country to analyze … stylized facts of the behaviour of consumer prices. Our findings are as follows: i) The median duration of prices is little … over 2 months. Therefore, retail prices in Uruguay are less sticky than in the US but stickier than in the UK. ii) We do …