| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21176 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21176 |
| Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico | |
| David Atkin; Benjamin Faber; Marco Gonzalez-Navarro | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-05-18 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The arrival of global retail chains in developing countries is causing a radical transformation in the way that households source their consumption. This paper draws on a new collection of Mexican microdata to estimate the effect of foreign supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of the microdata allows us to estimate a general expression for the gains from retail FDI, and to decompose these gains into several distinct channels. We find that foreign retail entry causes large and significant welfare gains for the average household that are mainly driven by a reduction in the cost of living. About one quarter of this price index effect is due to pro-competitive effects on the prices charged by domestic stores, with the remaining three quarters due to the direct consumer gains from shopping at the new foreign stores. In contrast, we find little evidence of significant changes in average municipality-level incomes or employment. We do, however, find evidence of store exit, adverse effects on domestic store profits and reductions in the incomes of traditional retail sector workers. We also show that the gains from retail FDI are on average positive for all income groups but regressive, and quantify the opposing forces that underlie this finding. Finally, we find that the estimated gains are specific to foreign entry, rather than being driven by the entry of modern store formats more generally. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; Trade ; International Factor Mobility ; Globalization and International Relations ; Development and Growth |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21176 |
| 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/578850 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David Atkin,Benjamin Faber,Marco Gonzalez-Navarro. Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico. 2015. |
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