| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w17220 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 17220 |
| Competing with Costco and Sam's Club: Warehouse Club Entry and Grocery Prices | |
| Charles J. Courtemanche; Art Carden | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-07-14 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Prior research shows grocery stores reduce prices to compete with Walmart Supercenters. This study finds evidence that the competitive effects of two other big box retailers - Costco and Walmart-owned Sam's Club - are quite different. Using city-level panel grocery price data matched with a unique data set on Walmart and warehouse club locations, we find that Costco entry is associated with higher grocery prices at incumbent retailers, and that the effect is strongest in cities with small populations and high grocery store densities. This could be explained by a segmented-market model, or by incumbents competing with Costco along non-price dimensions such as product quality or quality of the shopping experience. We find no evidence that Sam's Club entry affects grocery stores' prices, consistent with Sam's Club's focus on small businesses instead of consumers. |
| 主题 | Industrial Organization ; Market Structure and Firm Performance ; Industry Studies ; Regional and Urban Economics ; Regional Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w17220 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574895 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Charles J. Courtemanche,Art Carden. Competing with Costco and Sam's Club: Warehouse Club Entry and Grocery Prices. 2011. |
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| w17220.pdf（208KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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