with a lowering of chain TFP by about 0.4% pa, about 40% of the post-1995 slowdown in UK retail TFP growth. The foregone …

small retail units with low turnover, retail chains were considerably developed. The domestic market began to be penetrated … by the first European retail chains in the mid-nineties of the last century. That was the spark of the change, to which … many of the players in the retail sector were not able to adapt. During this period one can notice, on the one hand, a …

purpose of this paper is to test Gibrat’s law within the retail industry, using a novel data-set comprising all Swedish …´s Law can be rejected for a large majority of five-digit retail industries in Sweden, since small retail firms tend to grow …

(TFP) in the retailing industry by (i) restricting the total availability of land for retail, thereby increasing space … costs (ii) directly limiting store size and (iii) concentrating retail development on specific central locations. We use … unique store-specific data to estimate the impact of space on retail productivity and the specific effects of planning …

In the past 20 years the retail sector has undergone a real internal revolution in terms of management, investment and …

The restrictions that planning policies impose on retail development have significantly reduced the productivity of …

Sports retail is a small but fast growing segment of modern retail in India. Recently, the country has been hosting … entered sports retail. Sports goods manufacturing is a focus area in the Foreign Trade Policy (2009-2014) and the government … is taking a fresh look at the current foreign direct investment policy in retail. In the above context, this paper …

While being a key sector in all developed economies, retail trade does actually appear to be one of the reasons for … retail trade situation in Belgium along these lines. As far as possible, Belgium’s performance is compared with that of … legislation governing retail trade in Belgium, tend to suggest that regulation in Belgium is relatively abundant and restrictive …

, and 1982 Census of Retail Trade, matched to data on store scanner installations, to estimate scanners’ effect on labor …