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The Impact of Private Label Introduction on Assortment, Prices, and Profits of Retailers

Ma, Meilin; Siebert, Ralph - 2021

We study how the introduction of private-label brands (PLs) affects retailers’ prices, demand, and profits, explicitly accounting for assortment adjustments of national brands (NBs) in retail stores. Using a detailed dataset on the U.S. beef market, we find that, when PLs are added to the...

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The Effect of Mergers on Variety in Grocery Retailing

Argentesi, Elena; Cervone, Roberto; Duso, Tomaso; … - 2021

We study the effect of a merger between two Dutch supermarket chains to assess its effect on the depth as well as composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in the merger’s effects, controlling for selection on observables through a...

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Vertical Relations, Pass-Through, and Market Definition : Evidence from Grocery Retailing

Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich; Klein, Gordon; … - 2021

We examine how different pass-through rates, from input- to final consumer prices, and different vertical contracts affect upstream market definition. Our theory model predicts that, under reasonable conditions, higher pass-through rates lead to definitions of larger upstream markets. Data from...

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Taxes on Unhealthy Food and Externalities in the Parental Choice of Children's Diet

Kalamov, Zarko Y. - 2019

This paper addresses the question whether taxes on unhealthy food are suitable for internalizing intergenerational … parent, the optimal steady state tax rate on unhealthy food is strictly positive. However, it is only second best since it … not only reduces food consumption of the child but also distorts the parent's food consumption. Surprisingly, the optimal …

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Gender Roles and the Gender Expectations Gap

D'Acunto, Francesco - 2020

Expectations about macro-finance variables, such as inflation, vary significantly across genders, even within the same household. We conjecture that traditional gender roles expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives, which in turn produce systematic variation in...

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Effects of Precipitation on Food Consumer Price Inflation

Moessner, Richhild - 2022

We study how precipitation has affected food consumer price inflation (CPI), using dynamic panel estimation of food CPI …. We allow for nonlinear effects of precipitation on food CPI inflation, and also control for possible nonlinear effects of … temperature. We find that precipitation has significant nonlinear effects on food CPI inflation. The coefficient of food CPI …

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Quantifying Consumer Taste in Trade : Evidence from the Food Industry

Aw, Bee-yan; Lee, Yi; Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2023

This paper develops an empirical model of consumer taste in twenty-nine Belgium food industries for the period from … substantial taste heterogeneity in food exports across destination countries. Overall, in the large majority of food exports …

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Globalization, Fertility and Marital Behavior in a Lowest-Low Fertility Setting

Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - 2022

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse...

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Measuring the Competitiveness of Elections

Cox, Gary W. - 2019

The concept of electoral competition plays a central role in many subfields of political science, but no consensus exists on how to measure it. One key challenge is how to conceptualize and measure electoral competitiveness at the district level across alternative electoral systems. Recent...

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Trade and Credit Reallocation : How Banks Help Shape Comparative Advantage

Keuschnigg, Christian - 2019

Trade and innovation cause structural change. Productive factors must flow from declining to growing industries. Banks play a major role in cutting credit to non-viable firms in downsizing sectors and in providing new credit to finance investment in expanding, innovative sectors. Structural...

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