We examine the intra-metropolitan location decisions of retail stores by focusing on the openings of a comprehensive list of department (“anchor”) stores in the United States. The nonparametric K-density procedure shows that new stores are more dispersed than existing stores; their locations...

This paper presents and validates a novel empirical approach for measuring the value of the option to redevelop using a standard hedonic dataset. Our analysis generalizes the standard hedonic model to account for the option value of reconfiguring hedonic characteristics. We test this model with...