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Magnitude and Determinants of Price Rigidity in German Grocery Retailing - An Empirical Analysis with Scanner Data
Weber, Sascha A. - 2009
Analyses of price rigidity mainly neglected food retailing industry. There are only few studies explicitly concerning … this part of the food process chain. In Blinder’s et al. (1998) analysis of the U.S. economy the food retailing industry is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446317
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International trade and retailing
Eckel, Carsten - 2009
account. I present a new model of retailing in general equilibrium and explore its implications for a number of different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264598
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Liberalization of Opening Hours with Free Entry
Wenzel, Tobias - 2007
This paper studies competition in prices and opening hours in a model with free entry. It is shown that under free competition a market failure arises: Entry is excessive and opening hours are under-provided. Restrictions on opening hours aggravate this failure. I analyze the impact of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264686
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Imports, pass-through, and the structure of retail markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2009
large when market structure effects are taken into account, and that restrictions on retailing may have significant effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265260
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Buyer power in international markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2009
This paper investigates the implications for international markets of the existence of retailers/wholesalers with market power. Two main results are shown. First, in the presence of buyer power trade liberalization may lead to retail market concentration. Due to this concentration retail prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276305
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Complementarities, below-cost pricing, and welfare losses
von Schlippenbach, Vanessa - 2008
We analyze below-cost pricing in retail markets and examine its impact on social welfare as well as on suppliers' incentives to invest in quality. Considering negotiations about a linear wholesale price between the retailer and her suppliers, we find that below-cost pricing aggravates the double...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276612
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Upfront payments and listing decisions
Baake, Pio; von Schlippenbach, Vanessa - 2008
We analyze the listing decisions of a retailer who may ask her suppliers to make upfront payments in order to be listed. We consider a sequential game with upfront payments being negotiated before short-term delivery contracts. We show that the retailer is more likely to use upfront payments the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276613
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Imports, pass-through, and the structure of retail markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2009
large when market structure effects are taken into account, and that restrictions on retailing may have significant effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276624
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Manufacturers and retailers in the global economy
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2011
We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in … shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the rise in retailer product assortment and the emergence of slotting … concentration is best explained by technological change in retailing. We also identify a novel benefit from market integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277350
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Manufacturers and retailers in the global economy
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2011
We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in … shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the rise in retailer product assortment and the emergence of slotting … concentration is best explained by technological change in retailing. We also identify a novel benefit from market integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277404