Modelling the effects of mergers in the retail sector. According to the Danish Competition Act, a merger that impedes ef- fective competition signi cantly, in particular by creating or strengthening a dominant postition, shall be prohibited. To decide whether this is the case the authorities...

We revisit and test Salop and Stiglitz (1982) Theory of Sales. Equilibrium predictions are that higher consumer storage costs lead to: (1) higher average prices, (2) fewer promotions, and (3) shallower promotions. Empirical estimates of storage cost are developed for approximately 1,000...

The paper studies the daily price patterns of unleaded gasoline across fueling stations in Greece during April 2011-December 2012 by (a) econometrically estimating the impact of refinery prices, brands, geography, the number of competitors in the area, the day of the week, seasonality and...

For years, online retailers have maintained a price advantage over brick-and-mortar retailers by not collecting sales tax at the time of sale. Recently, several states have required that online retailer Amazon collect sales tax during checkout. Using transaction-level data, we document that...

In recent years there has been a large increase in the empirical literature on price behavior. As new and detailed data sets become available, we observe a number of important studies on the microeconomic fundamentals of price setting by firms — mainly retailers — and their impact on...

Retail Forex as an online CFD market is generally known as a high risk area for traders. This study is focused on existing risks and return possibilities in this market. Risks which may threat traders are surveyed through Liquidity, Credit, and Control, plus Market risks. Value at Risk and...

If there is a shift of market power from manufacturers to retailers or from retailers to manufacturers, how are consumers affected? When the value chain has successive firms that each have market power, the shifting balance of power up or down the chain (away from the consumer or towards the...

We create a new database of retail prices in Argentina with over 10 million observations per day. Our main novel finding is that, different from Kaplan, Menzio, Rudanko, and Trachter (2016), chains, rather than stores, explain most of the price variation in our data. We show this in three ways:...

This paper considers the realized returns of individual investors in warrants and leverage certificates. First, we derive a general formula that analytically decomposes the return into several economically meaningful components that are related to investor's trading behavior and the issuers'...

We analyze the effect of supermarket entry on the exit of small stores in the food retailing sector in Montevideo between 1998 and 2007. By using detailed geographical information about supermarkets and smaller stores we are able to identify the link between entrants and the exit of nearby small...