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Entry and Prices: Evidence from the Chilean Supermarket Industry

Lira, Loreto; Rivero, Rosario; Vergara, Rodrigo - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas … - 2005

One of the most significant developments in the last couple of decades in the retail industry has been the emergence of …

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Do Large Retailers Affect Employment? Evidence from an Emerging Economy

Rivero, Rosario; Vergara, Rodrigo - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas … - 2006

This paper studies the effect of the emergence of large retailers (hypermarkets and department stores) on employment in the commerce sector in the regions of Chile. We use a panel with quarterly data from eleven Chilean regions for the period 1996-2004. Our results indicate that the entry of...

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'Twas Four Weeks before Christmas: Retail Sales and the Length of the Christmas Shopping Season

Basker, Emek - Economics Department, University of Missouri - 2004

day after US Thanksgiving) on aggregate retail sales. I find a statistically significant increase in per-capita retail …

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Supersize It - The Growth of Retail Chains and the Rise of the "Big Box" Retail Format

Basker, Emek; Klimek, Shawn; Van, Pham Hoang - Economics Department, University of Missouri - 2008

We offer a theory for the complementarity between the size of a retail chain and the scope of its business to explain … micro data from the Census of Retail Trade for 1977-2002. Retail chains with more stores carry more distinct product lines … and as retail chains grow they add both stores and product lines. On average, we find that a chain adds one product line …

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Prices and Market Structure: An Empirical Analysis of the Supermarket Industry in Chile

Lira, Loreto; Ugarte, Magdalena; Rodrigo Vergara. - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas … - 2008

This paper investigates empirically the relationship between market structure and consumer prices in the supermarket industry in Chile. A panel of monthly data from 16 cities in the period January 1998–September 2006 was used. It was found that the more concentrated the industry is in a city,...

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DEVELOPMENT OF RETAIl MARKET IN SERBIA

RADOSAVLJEVIC, GORDANA; MAKSIMOVIC, LJILJANA; … - In: Perspectives of Innovation in Economics and Business (PIEB) 9 (2011) 3, pp. 48-52

The aim of this paper is to analyze retail development in Serbia under the conditions of globalization and …

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Short Hours, Long Hours: Hour Levels and Trends in the Retail Industry in the United States, Canada, and Mexico

Carre, Francoise; Tilly, Chris - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2012

, and Mexico. We analyze the retail sector, which is of interest because of its high rate of part-time employment in the U ….S. Based on our fieldwork in the United States and Mexico and qualitative literature on Canadian retail work, we argue that the …

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Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector

Basker, Emek - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2011

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

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Retail Market Structure Development in Central Europe

Machek, Martin - In: Central European Business Review 2012 (2012) 3, pp. 22-27

Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. These markets serve about 63 million inhabitants. The retail industry in Central Europe …. The retail market is highly concentrated and dominated by Western European retail chains. International retail chains are … discount stores. Due to the international retail chains, Central European countries benefit from a dense network of modern …

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The Social Responsibility of Retailers through the Eyes of Students of a Commerce Faculty – a Qualitative Approach

Tigu, Gabriela; Tuclea, Claudia-Elena; Vrânceanu, … - In: The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal 16 (2014) 35, pp. 73-73

about this issue, both as consumers and prospective decision makers in the retail sector. The research was conducted in two …

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