This paper studies shopping hour decisions by retail chains and independent competitors. We use a Salop-type model where retailers compete in prices and shopping hours. Our results depend significantly on efficiency differences between retail chain and independent retailer. If the efficiency...

We investigate the effect of market structure on market performance in the market for consumer electronics. This research is novel, because we exploit product life cycle information to build an instrumental variable for the number of firms in a market, a variable which hitherto had to be treated...

Mining customer shopping data is able for business managers to understand and predict customer behavior. However, most practices are focusing on the purchasing goods, i.e. basket analysis. This article collects customer shopping data by observation to systematically discover customer shopping...

India's market is consumer driven market The Indian consumer segment is broadly segregated into urban and rural markets, and is attracting marketers from across the world. India has a young demographic and a middle class with rising disposable income. India is a multi-culture country with high...

Researches over the years have posited that most of the purchasing decisions made by shoppers are unplanned and mostly made inside the store. Every year retailers spend huge amount on in-store promotion and store environment to gain consumers' attention and stimulate them for such impulsive...

In the early 70s, the retail landscape of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA) was mostly confined to the Lisbon downtown. However, the retail landscape is changing at a rapid pace. In the mid-80s, two focus of retail competition (Amoreiras Shopping Center and Roma Avenue) appeared out-of-city...

Institutional barriers to entry were removed to a considerable extent in 1996 in the Dutch retail sector. Three years before that the regulator decided to not take legal actions anymore against entrants violating institutional requirements. In the current analysis we investigate the effects of...

This paper conducts the first general equilibrium analysis of the role of entry, exit and profits in industry dynamics. The benefit of our model is twofold. First, to discriminate between entrants’ role of performing the entrepreneurial function of creating disequilibrium and the conventional...

Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy are based on theoretical models that assume foreign manufacturers sell directly to consumers. However, recent empirical evidence suggests that wholesalers and retailers play an...