Slotting allowances are fees paid by manufacturers to get access to retailers' shelf space. Both in the USA and Europe, the use of slotting allowances has attracted attention in the general press as well as among policy makers and economists. One school of thought claims that slotting allowances...

Price plays a very important role in any consumer buying decision process. One of the attempts to explain the consumer behavior vis-à-vis pricing involves the idea of reference pricing. It is very common to find practices of external reference pricing or advertised reference pricing by the...

Looking at a large number of markets, I find that (i) prices and variety are higher when there are two competing supermarkets than in those with a single store and (ii) the two effects are positively correlated. This pattern persists after controlling for differences across markets in a variety...