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Liberalization of Opening Hours with Free Entry

Wenzel, Tobias - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2007

This paper studies competition in prices and opening hours in a model with free entry. It is shown that under free competition a market failure arises: Entry is excessive and opening hours are under-provided. Restrictions on opening hours aggravate this failure. I analyze the impact of a...

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Productivity, Multinationals and Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from the UK Retail Sector

Anon-Higon, Dolores; Vasilakos, Nicholas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper discusses the impact of foreign-ownership presence on the productivity performance of domestically-owned British retailers. In specific, we investigate the existence of productivity spillovers in the form of knowledge transfer. To guide our estimations, we develop a simple Hotelling...

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Towards a sustainable development of retailing in Romania

Coca, Viorel; Dobrea, Mihaela; Vasiliu, Cristinel - In: The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal 15 (2013) Special 7, pp. 583-602

conservation. The retailing is part of this process, playing an important role due to the connection it provides between producers … and consumers. The objectives of this study were to highlight the extent to which retailing developed in Romania, to … investigation. After analyzing the data, it was concluded that the retailing sector in Romania is a powerful one, with a market …

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Market Structure and Market Performance in E-Commerce

Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014

We analyze the interaction between market structure and market performance and how it varies over the product cycle. To account for the potential endogeneity in this relation, we use an instrumental variable approach. We combine data from the largest Austrian online market for price comparisons...

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Retail development in the consumer revolution: The Netherlands, c. 1670–c. 1815

van den Heuvel, Danielle; Ogilvie, Sheilagh - In: Explorations in Economic History 50 (2013) 1, pp. 69-87

The Netherlands pioneered an early modern ‘Retail Revolution’, facilitating the Consumer Revolution. We analyze 959 Dutch retail ratios using multivariate regressions. Retail density rose with female headship everywhere. Density was high in Holland, but moderate in intermediate provinces and...

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Development of Food Retailing and Factors Affecting the Competition in Food Retailing

Kilic, Serkan; Senol, Gokhan - In: Business and Economics Research Journal 1 (2010) 2, pp. 45-45

Retailing is a dynamic and complex sector that offers wide range of products and services to consumers. This sector … which includes different types of enterprises, has an important position within the supply chain. Food retailing has also a … big potential within retailing sector. On the other hand, an intensive competition exists in food retailing. Taking place …

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Productivity, Ownership and National Chains: Evidence from the British Retail Sector

Higón, Dolores Añón - In: Applied Economics Quarterly (formerly: Konjunkturpolitik) 55 (2009) 4, pp. 313-334

performance gaps in retailing. …

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Food Retailers’ Objectives of Developing Private Label Products and their Perspectives to Private Label Products

Kilic, Serkan - In: Business and Economics Research Journal 2 (2011) 1, pp. 173-173

In the intensive competitive environment, retailers incline to develop their own branded products (private label products) to make a differentiation over their rivals and to gain a market share. On the other side, retailers’ have some objectives in developing private label products. At this...

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Retailers and SME suppliers social responsibility in international supply chains

Pepe, Cosetta; Musso, Fabio; Risso, Mario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper presents an overview of corporate social responsibility drivers within international supply chains, following a multiple perspective of the different players involved. The study focused on the relationship between European large retailers and small-medium manufacturers in the food...

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Market Dynamics in Sypply Chains: The Impact of Globalization and Consolidation on food companies' mark-ups

Kaditi, Eleni A. - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2011

This paper examines whether ownership and increased competitive pressure affect food retailersâ€™ market power, analysing whether all actors involved in the food supply chain deviate from the pricing behaviour that exists under perfect competition. A method proposed by Roeger (1995) is used...

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