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Shopping Hours and Price Competition
Inderst, Roman; Irmen, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper develops an argument explaining why retail prices may rise in response to the deregulation of opening hours. We make this point in a model of imperfect duopolistic competition. In a deregulated market retailers view the choice of opening hours as a means to increase the degree of...
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Market Structure and Market Performance in E-Commerce
Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
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...
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Buyer Power and Supplier Incentives
Inderst, Roman; Wey, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper investigates how the formation of larger buyers affects a supplier's profits and, by doing so, his incentives to undertake non-contractible activities. We first identify two channels of buyer power, which allows larger buyers to obtain discounts. We subsequently examine the effects of...
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Retail Mergers: Buyer Power and Product Variety
Inderst, Roman; Shaffer, Greg - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper analyses the impact of retail mergers on product variety. We show that a merging firm may want to enhance its buyer power vis a vis suppliers by delisting products and committing to a ‘single-sourcing’ purchasing strategy. Anticipating this, suppliers will strategically choose to...
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Price and Brand Competition between Differentiated Retailers: A Structural Econometric Model
Dubois, Pierre; Jodar Rosell, Sandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We develop a model of competition between retailer chains with a structural estimation of the demand and supply in the supermarket industry in France. In the model, supermarkets compete in price and brand offer over all food products to attract consumers, in particular through the share of...
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Supplier Responses to Wal-Mart's Invasion in Mexico
Iacovone, Leonardo; Javorcik, Beata; Keller, Wolfgang; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper examines the effect of Wal-Mart's entry into Mexico on Mexican manufacturers of consumer goods. Guided by firm interviews that suggested substantial heterogeneity across firms in how they responded to Wal-Mart's entry, we develop a dynamic industry model in which firms decide whether...
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The Rise of the Machines: Automation, Horizontal Innovation and Income Inequality
Hemous, David; Olsen, Morten - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We construct an endogenous growth model of directed technical change with automation (the introduction of machines … are low, which induces little automation, such that income inequality and labor's share of GDP are constant. Second, as … low-skill wages increase, investment in automation is stimulated, which depresses the future growth rate of low …
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Fear of Outsourcing: Is It Justified?
Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This Paper aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the...
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The Spatial Development of India
Desmet, Klaus; Ghani, Ejaz; O'Connell, Stephen D; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper studies the recent spatial development of India. Services, and to a lesser extent manufacturing, are … services have tended to grow fastest in medium-density locations, such as Silicon Valley. India's experience is not common to …
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Globalization and European Labour Markets
Burda, Michael C; Dluhosch, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
empirical puzzles in the trade-wages debate and can also explain the bimodal growth in services (high and low skill) observed in …
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