We investigate the causal effect of market structure on market performance in the consumer electronics. We combine data from Austria's largest online site for price comparisons with retail data on wholesale prices provided by a major hardware producer for consumer electronics. We observe input...

This paper inquires into the tendency of German food retailers to market organic products as private-label products (PLs). After a review of the literature, we present preliminary results of a survey of retailers and processors. 62.5 % of the interviewed processors produce organic PL. Retailers...

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...