This paper identifies patterns of cross-sectional and temporal price dispersion-in the Spanish online grocery retail …. Our results show that price dispersion is still present (albeit to a lesser extent) even after controlling for chain … using price data while accounting for vertical product differentiation. The analysis suggests that the extent of search is …

led the merging parties to reposition their assortment and increase average category prices. While the low-variety and low-price … target's stores reduced the depth of their assortment when in direct competition with the acquirer's stores, the latter … offerings in order to avoid cannibalization and lessen local competition. Further, we show that other dimensions of …

led the merging parties to reposition their assortment and increase average category prices. While the low-variety and low-price … target’s stores reduced the depth of their assortment when in direct competition with the acquirer’s stores, the latter … offerings in order to avoid cannibalization and lessen local competition. Further, we show that other dimensions of …

This paper analyses the extent of inter-format retail competition between supermarkets, discounters and drugstores in … finding contrasts with recent speculations by competition authorities that private label products may belong to a different …