The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density

By Thomas J. Holmes. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing

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Dynamic Discrete Choice Structural Models: A Survey (2010, unknown): “j=1 β e 3 a (r,a) i,t+j , x (r,a) i,t+j ́# (45)”
The Evolving Food Chain: Competitive Effects of Wal‐Mart's Entry into the Supermarket Industry (2007, unknown): “Because of Wal-Mart’s historical expansion pattern in circles around Bentonville, Arkansas (see Holmes, 2006), geographically-based instruments have been popular in recent papers studying its local effects.”
Supersizing Supercenters? The Impact of Wal-Mart Supercenters on Body Mass Index and Obesity (2011, background): “For instance, Philipson and Posner (2003) and Lakdawalla and Philipson (2002) suggest that rising obesity in the United States is the result of falling real food prices due to increased agricultural productivity and a movement from jobs requiring physical activity to more sedentary employment.”
Models of Growth and Firm Heterogeneity (2010, unknown): “[38] Holmes, T.”
Frictions in a Competitive, Regulated Market: Evidence from Taxis (2015, background): “56 Su and Judd (2012) demonstrates the computational advantage of MPEC over nested fixed point computations (NFXP) in the classical example of Rust (1987) bus-engine-replacement problem. Applications of MPEC to demand models and dynamic oligopoly models can be found in, for example, Conlon (2010) an”
Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico (2015, background): “Jia (2008) focuses on entry and exit decisions between Walmart and competing retailers.”
Inference on Causal and Structural Parameters using Many Moment Inequalities (2013, background): “…and Tamer (2009) who estimated the empirical importance of firm heterogeneity as a determinant of the market structure in the US airline industry,3 Holmes (2011) who estimated the dynamic model of the Wal-Mart expansion,4 and Ryan (2012) who estimated the welfare costs of the 1990 Amendments to…”
Global Production with Export Platforms (2016, unknown): “Interdependent location choices within the firm also arise in Holmes (2011), who estimates the determinants of the expansion of Walmart stores within the United States.”
Moment Inequalities and Their Application (2015, background): “5%), (15)The data set is described in Ishii (2004), and is carefully put together from a variety of sources including the Summary of Deposits, the Call and Thrift Financial Reports, the 2000 Census, the Massachusetts Division of Banks, and various industry publications.”
Estimating Dynamic Models of Imperfect Competition (2004, unknown): “Holmes (2006) provides a nice illustration and solution to this problem.”