supermarkets has highlighted the implications of the concentration of food value chains for the continued incorporation of small …

Supermarkets have spread extremely rapidly in developing countries after the take-off in the early to mid-1990s. Former … analyses of supermarket diffusion have not adequately explained the sudden burst and then exponential diffusion of supermarkets … substantially endogenous. To enable their rapid growth, supermarkets undertake proactive fast-tracking strategies to alter the …

to grocery retailers in five large Brazilian cities located in different geographical regions (South, Southeast and …

quantify and disentangle the effects of product variety, prices, and other store characteristics on consumer welfare. We show …

-commerce’s impact by focusing on e-grocery giant—Amazon Fresh and Instacart— to examine how their market entry impacts local brick …-and-mortar businesses operating in the same grocery retail industry. Our study leverages e-grocery’s clear service areas at zip code level … more heavily over time. In contrast, Instacart, a distinct online grocery platform, which solely provides delivery services …

Kosovo, as a case in point and measure consumers’ competence in dealing with package and price information in supermarkets …

This paper examines retail grocery price levels with a very large (unbalanced) panel of stores that operate in well …-defined local markets. We explain price variation across grocery retailers by the concentration of wholesalers and retailers, and …

We study the effect of a merger in a dynamic high-technology industry - the videogame market - which is characterized … by frequent introduction of new products. To assess the impact of the merger between two large specialist retailers in … the merger. This decline has been more marked for the merging parties, which suggests that the merger between Game and …

We study the effect of a merger in a dynamic high-technology industry - the videogame market - which is characterized … by frequent introduction of new products. To assess the impact of the merger between two large specialist retailers in … the merger. This decline has been more marked for the merging parties, which suggests that the merger between Game and …

(3) compute welfare effects, under a variety of assumptions. The methodology is applied to two recent mergers, one … proposed merger that was called off and two hypothetical mergers among cereal manufacturers. For the two mergers that occurred …Traditional merger analysis, based on market definition and use of concentration measures to infer potential anti …