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Stepping up as an essential service : grocery retailing and the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada

Jacobson, Jenna; Gunn, Frances; Hernandez, Tony - In: The international review of retail, distribution and … 33 (2023) 3, pp. 240-259

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Amazon effects in Canadian online retail firm-product-level data

Chernoff, Alex W. - 2019

I use firm-product-level data for Canadian online retailers to study how product scope (the average number of product categories per firm) evolved from 1999 to 2012. During this period, product scope dropped monotonically from 59 to 5 product categories. Using a theoretical model of...

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Short hours, long hours : hour levels and trends in the retail industry in the United States, Canada, and Mexico

Carré, Françoise J.; Tilly, Chris - 2012

In settings where most workers have full-time schedules, hourly wages are appropriate primary indicators of job quality and worker outcomes. However, in sectors where full-time schedules do not dominate - primarily service-producing activities - total hours matter, in addition to hourly wages,...

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Short Hours, Long Hours : Hour Levels and Trends in the Retail Industry in the United States, Canada, and Mexico

Wyrwa, Richard; Tilly, Chris - 2012

In settings where most workers have full-time schedules, hourly wages are appropriate primary indicators of job quality and worker outcomes. However, in sectors where full-time schedules do not dominate — primarily service-producing activities — total hours matter, in addition to hourly...

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Hub-and-spoke cartels : theory and evidence from the grocery industry

Clark, Robert; Horstmann, Ignatius J.; Houde, Jean-François - 2021

Numerous recently uncovered cartels operated along the supply chain, with firms at one end facilitating collusion at the other - hub-and-spoke arrangements. These cartels are hard to rationalize because they induce double marginalization and higher costs. We examine Canada's alleged bread cartel...

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Data-opolies

Stucke, Maurice E. - 2018

In contrast to the European Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission have not meaningfully prosecuted monopolistic abuses over the past 16 years. The U.S. Supreme Court's view on monopolies has also become forgiving. There is no empirical support that...

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Testing Models of Differentiated Products Markets : Consolidation in the Cable TV Industry

Byrne, David P. - 2014

-maximizing levels, leading to biases in the model’s marginal cost estimates. I study the implications for merger simulations, and find … that these biases compromise estimates of merger-related cost efficiencies, yet do not prevent these models from generating … useful predictions of the price and non-price effects of mergers …

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Testing models of differentiated products markets : consolidation in the Cable TV industry

Byrne, David P. - In: International economic review 56 (2015) 3, pp. 805-850

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Cost pass-through and product differentiation : a case study for the Canadian retail market

Bittmann, Thomas; Anders, Sven; Loy, Jens-Peter - In: Essays on competition and cost pass-through in food …, (pp. 27-52). 2018

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Eliminating the Penny in Canada : an economic analysis of Penny-Rounding on grocery items

Cheung, Christina - In: Atlantic economic journal : AEJ 46 (2018) 2, pp. 231-239

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