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When Little Things Mean a Lot: On the Inefficiency of Item Pricing Laws

Bergen, Mark; Levy, Daniel; Ray, Sourav; Rubin, Paul; … - EconWPA - 2004

We study item-pricing laws (which require that each item in a store be individually marked with a price sticker) and examine and quantify their costs and benefits. On the cost side, we argue that item-pricing laws increase the retailers’ costs, forcing them to raise prices. We test this...

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The Rapid Rise of Supermarkets in Developing Countries: Induced Organizational, Institutional, and Technological Change in Agrifood Systems

Reardon, Thomas; Timmer, Peter; Berdegue, Julio - In: The Electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development … 1 (2004) 2, pp. 168-183

, accompanied by intense competition, has driven changes in the organization of procurement systems of supermarket chains, toward …

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Pipeline Power: A Case Study of Strategic Network Investments

Hubert, Franz; Cobanli, Onur - In: Review of Network Economics 14 (2015) 2, pp. 75-110

Abstract We analyze the impact of three controversial pipeline projects on the power structure in the Eurasian network for natural gas. Two pipelines, “Nord Stream” and “South Stream,” allow Russian gas to bypass transit countries, Ukraine and Belarus. The third project, “Nabucco,”...

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Strategic growth options

Kulatilaka, N.; Perotti, E.C. - 1997

We provide a strategic rationale for growth options under uncertainty and imperfect competition. In a market with … strategic competition, investment confers a greater capability to take advantage of future growth opportunities. This strategic …

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Strategic advantage and the optimal exercise of entry options

Perotti, E.C.; Rossetto, S. - 2001

We investigate the timing and the valuation of strategic investment aimed at enhancing entry opportunities in related market segments. As demand is uncertain, entry options should be exercised at the optimal time, trading off the market share gain against the option to wait until more...

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Strategic growth options

Kulatilaka, N.; Perotti, E.C. - 1998

strategic competition, investment confers a greater capability to take advantage of future growth opportunities. This strategic …

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Strategic location behaviour: Temporal and spatial proximity in situation of agglomeration effects

Mayer, Thierry; Mucchielli, Jean-Louis - 1996

We address the question of competition within the location choices of firms. In a framework of agglomeration effects …, both spatial and temporal dimensions of the firms' decisions are studied. We show that the competition consequences of … tend to demonstrate that the relation between competition strength and spatial differentiation remains pertinent in a …

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Strategic investment, forward markets and competition

Aichele, Markus - 2014

market (medium term investment), competition becomes fierce. Thus, the efficiency gains from forward trading found by Allaz … investment), competition becomes rather weak. When investment matters, from a welfare point of view the desirability of forward …

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How disagreement about social costs leads to inefficient energy productivity investment

Voß, Achim - 2013

Public energy productivity investment influences the amount of future energy consumption. If a present government expects its successor to value the social costs of fuel usage differently, this adds a strategic component to its investment considerations. We analyze this governmental...

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Strategic investment and international outsourcing in unionised oligopoly

Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 19 (2012) 2, pp. 260-269

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