Arbeitspapier

Deregulation of shopping hours: The impact on independent retailers and chain stores

This paper studies shopping hour decisions by retail chains and independent competitors. We use a Salop-type model where retailers compete in prices and shopping hours. Our results depend significantly on efficiency differences between retail chain and independent retailer. If the efficiency difference is small, the independent retailer may choose longer shopping hours than the retail chain and may gain from deregulation at the expense of the retail chain. The opposite result emerges when the efficiency difference is large. Then, the retail chain may benefit whereas the independent retailer loses from deregulation.

ISBN
978-3-86304-002-4
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: DICE Discussion Paper ; No. 03

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
Economics of Regulation
Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce
Thema
business hours
retailing
deregulation
Öffnungszeit
Deregulierung
Einzelhandel
Potenzieller Wettbewerb

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Wenzel, Tobias
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
(wo)
Düsseldorf
(wann)
2010

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Wenzel, Tobias
  • Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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