Occupancy discount is a long-accepted doctrine in literature. Search theory supports such a proposition, but empirical evidence is mixed. This study revisits this dilemma and puts forward an alternative argument that a landlord may exploit sitting tenants who have made non-redeployable...

In this paper, we analyze the strategic role of the recent introduction of national brand products by hard discounters in the French market and its impact both at the retail and manufacturer levels. We use a structural econometric model of vertical relationships that takes into account the...

We study how mandatory online disclosure of supermarket prices affects prices and price dispersion in brick-and-mortar stores. Using data collected before and after a transparency regulation went into effect in the Israeli food retail market, multiple complementary control groups and relying on...

We study how mandatory online disclosure of supermarket prices affects prices and price dispersion in brick-and-mortar stores. Using data collected before and after a transparency regulation went into effect in the Israeli food retail market, multiple complementary control groups and relying on...

We study how mandatory online disclosure of supermarket prices affects prices and price dispersion in brick-and-mortar stores. Using data collected before and after a transparency regulation went into effect in the Israeli food retail market, multiple complementary control groups and relying on...

We present evidence that restrictions to the set of feasible financial contracts affect buyer - supplier relationships and the organizational form of the firm. We exploit a regulation that restricted the maturity of the trade credit contracts that a large retailer could sign with some of its...

Founding story -- Life after George Dayton -- The third generation -- Discount retail -- Target comes to life -- The competition -- Struggles and solutions -- Changing the guard -- Bob UIrich, an exceptional leader -- Michael Graves and beyond -- Oh, Canada, and getting hacked -- New leadership...

How hard discounters are disrupting the traditional retail model -- Hard discounter strategies -- Understanding the hard discounter business model -- Strategies of key hard discounters: aldi, lidl, trader joe¿s and dia -- Hard discounter success around the world -- The next frontier :...

In Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, 131 S. Ct. 2531 (2011), the Supreme Court held that a proposed class of over a million women that had alleged pay and promotion discrimination against the nation’s largest retailer could not be certified. According to the Court, the plaintiffs had failed to...

This paper considers the macroeconomic effects of retailers' market concentration and buyer-size discounts on inflation dynamics. During Japan's “lost decades,” large retailers enhanced their market power, leading to increased exploitation of buyer-size discounts in procuring goods. We...

In markets for credence goods sellers are better informed than their customers about the quality that yields the highest surplus from trade. This paper studies second-degree price-discrimination in such markets. It shows that discrimination regards the amount of advice offered to customers and...

Die Ergebnisse der vorliegenden Dissertation richten sich sowohl an die wissenschaftliche Forschung als auch an die Immobilienpraxis. Mit dem Konzept des Handelsimmobilientyps und des dynamischen Teilmarktmodells werden zwei theoretische Konstrukte eingeführt, welche für ein gesamtheitliches...

This paper considers the macroeconomic effects of retailers' market concentration and buyer-size discounts on inflation dynamics. During Japan's "lost decades," large retailers enhanced their market power, leading to increased exploitation of buyer-size discounts in procuring goods. We...

Introduction. Situating Walmart in a global context : workplace cultures, industrial relations and supply chains / Carolina Bank Munoz, Bridget Kenny, and Antonio Stecher -- Wal-mart in Brazil : from global diffusion to national institutional embeddedness? / Katiuscia Moreno Galhera, Scott B....

"Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce--young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work--Walmartism--in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a...

The recent economic downturn has made consumers more focused on obtaining good value-for-money and on keeping their spending in check. This dissertation covers the implications of two recent developments indicative of such smart shoppingʺ: the increased popularity of the hard-discounterʺ...

Introduction -- Up from the tobacco fields -- The rewards of a contrary nature -- A cog in the machine -- Asking Alice -- When we got eyes -- Toys aren't kid stuff -- The eureka moment -- Surprise and delight -- Saving the dollar, changing the world -- Free of distractions -- Birth of the fire...