• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Empirical Analysis of Competition between Wal-Mart and Other Retail Channels
  • Contributor: Chiou, Lesley [Author]
  • Published: [S.l.]: SSRN, 2008
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (50 p)
  • Language: English
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: In: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
    Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments January 2008 erstellt
  • Description: This paper quantifies the degree of competition among Wal-Mart and different retail channels by exploiting a unique dataset that describes a consumer's choice of store. Using a discrete choice model, I estimate a consumer's choice of retailer in the sales market for DVDs among online, mass merchant, electronics, video specialty, and music stores. Wal-Mart competes more intensely with other mass merchants, and conditional on price and distance, the average consumer still prefers Wal-Mart over most other stores. I also consider a counterfactual experiment regarding the entry of Wal-Mart into 15 proposed store sites in California
  • Access State: Open Access