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...

Die Erreichbarkeit von Einrichtungen der Grundversorgung spielt sowohl für Standortentscheidungen als auch für die individuelle Lebenssituation der Bürger eine wichtige Rolle, denn Erreichbarkeitsverhältnisse bestimmen neben der Qualität des Infrastrukturangebots den regionalen...

Die Erreichbarkeit von Einrichtungen der Grundversorgung spielt sowohl für Standortentscheidungen als auch für die individuelle Lebenssituation der Bürger eine wichtige Rolle, denn Erreichbarkeitsverhältnisse bestimmen neben der Qualität des Infrastrukturangebots den regionalen...

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...

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...

Which knowledge and ideas are brought into the design of food markets by developers and operators of food markets and negotiated with the municipalities (administration, politics)? This article deals with the dynamics and logics of physical space production in relation to food markets, in...

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 :...

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...

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...

The main goal of this paper is to show if is possible to find a modern retail chain in one of the world largest economies that uses exclusively psychological pricing, as a dominant competitive advantage, in order to predominantly direct consumer behavior. Pricing, as a source of competitive...

"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...

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....

Erreichbarkeit spielt sowohl für Standortentscheidungen und die regionale Entwicklung als auch für die individuelle Lebenssituation der Bürger eine wichtige Rolle, denn Erreichbarkeitsverhältnisse bestimmen neben der Qualität des Infrastrukturangebots den regionalen Versorgungsgrad mit...

Erreichbarkeit spielt sowohl für Standortentscheidungen und die regionale Entwicklung als auch für die individuelle Lebenssituation der Bürger eine wichtige Rolle, denn Erreichbarkeitsverhältnisse bestimmen neben der Qualität des Infrastrukturangebots den regionalen Versorgungsgrad mit...

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...

Wal-Mart is the largest private employer in the United States, with more than one million current employees. Its employment practices directly affect over one percent of the American workforce. Moreover, other retailers often strive to replicate Wal-Mart's practices. If employment discrimination...

We measure the effects of chain economies, business stealing, and heterogeneous firms' comparative advantages in the discount retail industry. Traditional entry models are ill-suited for this high-dimensional problem of strategic interaction. Building upon recently developed profit inequality...