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Another quiet revolution is taking place in the alcoholic beverage markets: a trend toward lower-alcohol and even no-alcohol beverages, especially in the world's higher-income countries. This new trend adds to the long-term consumer trend in affluent countries of substituting quality for...
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is decreasing in the distance of a retailer from the US-Canada border. We do not find evidence of a strong relationship …
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Canada, the United States, and Mexico. We analyze the retail sector, which is of interest because of its high rate of part … and Canada on the one hand and Mexico on the other. We provide additional context for these findings. -- United States … ; Canada ; job quality ; Mexico ; part-time ; retail ; schedule ; working hours …
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I use firm-product-level data for Canadian online retailers to study how product scope (the average number of product categories per firm) evolved from 1999 to 2012. During this period, product scope dropped monotonically from 59 to 5 product categories. Using a theoretical model of...
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Canada, the United States, and Mexico. We analyze the retail sector, which is of interest because of its high rate of part … and Canada on the one hand and Mexico on the other. We provide additional context for these findings …
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This paper analyzes how entrepreneurs fare in an intermediary market segment when the segment is closely attached to a single supplier market. While focusing on two structural constraints, organizational structure and competitive pressure, I build off of the fact that in the past thirty years in...
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Liberalization is widely recognized to drive productivity growth. Retail trade is often thought to substantially contribute to the frequently debated productivity gap between Europe and the U.S. In Europe, entry regulations empower local authorities to decide on the entry of new stores. We use a...
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Are product market and entry regulation key sources of low employment growth in many European countries? We investigate this question in the context of the French retail trade industry. Since 1974, approval by regional zoning boards has been required for the creation or extension of any large...
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