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TIC et jeu concurrentiel. Le cas des places de marché électroniques
Tran, Sébastien - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007
The electronic marketplaces, as an interorganizational entity, is not limited to a transactional dimension. Indeed, those companies that survived the initial consolidation have increasingly expanded their functions and contribute to a new competition dynamic. This new competitiveness has set off...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752109
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Putting a Smiley Face on the Dragon: Wal-Mart as Catalyst to U.S.-China Trade
Basker, Emek; Van, Pham Hoang - Economics Department, University of Missouri - 2005
Retail chains and imports from developing countries have grown sharply over the past 25 years. Wal-Marts chain, which currently accounts for 10% of U.S. imports from China, grew 10-fold and its sales 90-fold over this period, while U.S. imports from China increased 30-fold. We relate these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005463564
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Imports "R" Us: Retail Chains as Platforms for Developing-Country Imports
Basker, Emek; Van, Pham Hoang - Economics Department, University of Missouri - 2008
Wal-Mart, Toys "R" Us, and other large retail chains are often identified with cheap imports. We use data from the Census of Retail Trade and the International Trade Commission over the period 1997-2002 to test whether big chains serve as platforms for imports from LDCs. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005184898
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Wal-Mart as Catalyst to U.S.-China Trade
Basker, Emek; Van, Pham Hoang - Economics Department, University of Missouri - 2007
Retail chains and the volume of imports of consumer goods from developing countries have grown sharply over the past 25 years. Wal-Marts sales, which currently account for 15% of U.S. imports of consumer goods from China, grew 90-fold over this period, while U.S. imports from China increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005628023
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International trade and retailing
Eckel, Carsten - 2009
account. I present a new model of retailing in general equilibrium and explore its implications for a number of different … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824675
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International trade and retailing
Eckel, Carsten - 2009
account. I present a new model of retailing in general equilibrium and explore its implications for a number of different … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825274
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International trade and retailing : diversity versus accessibility and the creation of "retail deserts"
Eckel, Carsten (contributor) - 2007
; retailing ; diversity ; accessibility ; retail deserts …-off between diversity and accessibility, and international trade is not unambiguously welfare improving. -- international trade … this process. The analysis shows that by raising product diversity, international trade also raises the costs of provision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003525568
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Putting a Smiley Face on the Dragon : Wal-Mart as Catalyst to U.S.-China Trade
Basker, Emek; Pham, Van H. - 2005
Retail chains and imports from developing countries have grown sharply over the past 25 years. Wal-Mart's chain, which currently accounts for 10% of U.S. imports from China, grew 10-fold and its sales 90-fold over this period, while U.S. imports from China increased 30-fold. We relate these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063390
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Wal-Mart as Catalyst to U.S.-China Trade
Basker, Emek; Pham, Van H. - 2008
Retail chains and imports of consumer goods from developing countries have grown sharply over the past 25 years. Wal-Mart's sales, which currently account for 15% of U.S. imports of consumer goods from China, grew 90-fold over this period, while U.S. imports from China increased 30-fold. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050476
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International Trade and Retailing
Eckel, Carsten - 2021
account. I present a new model of retailing in general equilibrium and explore its implications for a number of different … shocks. The results demonstrate that retail assortments may remain constant if consumers have a low preference for diversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316385