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This paper presents empirical evidence that endogenous fixed costs play a central role in determiningthe equilibrium structure of the supermarket industry. Using the framework developedin Sutton (1991), I construct a model of supermarket competition where escalating investment infirm level...
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Only 4% of total municipal solid waste in Lima is recycled. Supermarkets and bodegas are in a unique, highly relevant … paper explores the role of supermarkets and bodegas for consumer recycling behaviour, looking both at already implemented … the main mechanisms through which consumer recycling behaviour can be influenced between supermarkets and bodegas based on …
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products of household in Belo Horizonte, raised for "Cesta-Smab" in diverse supermarkets of the city in the years of 1999 and … 2000. It approaches the main characteristics of the recent process of reorganization of the retail sector in Brazil and … according to uses crossings special of the information gotten for primary research of the supermarkets. The surprising gotten …
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Retail Trade, matched to data on store scanner installations, to estimate scanners' effect on labor productivity. I find that …
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This is a discussion of "Change at the Checkout: Tracing the Impact of a Process Innovation" by Emek Basker, at the December 24, 2013 Israeli I.O. Day at Tel-Aviv University.
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, and 1982 Census of Retail Trade, matched to data on store scanner installations, to estimate scanners’ effect on labor …
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This paper uses a model of endogenous sunk cost (ESC) competition to explain the industrial structure of the supermarket industry, where a few powerful chains provide high quality products at low prices. The predictions of this model accord well with the features of the supermarket industry...
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bound to concentration that remains strictly positive as market size expands. Furthermore, I am able to verify that this non …
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