The Causes and Consequences of Wal-Mart's Growth

By Emek Basker. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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When Walmart comes to town: Always low housing prices? Always? (2015, unknown): “See Basker (2007) and Neumark et al. (2008) for a disc these differences.”
Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models in Continuous Time with an Application to Retail Competition (2016, unknown): “Since much of Wal-Mart’s advantage appears to derive from its enormous scale and intensive investment in information technology (Basker, 2007), there is particular concern that Wal-Mart stifles small scale entrepreneurial activity.”
Optimizing Service Productivity (2012, methodology): “Following prior research (e.g., Basker 2007; Bertschek 2004; Converse 1939; Datta, Guthrie, and Wright 2005; Guthrie 2001; Huselid 1995), we calculate labor productivity as the log of sales per employee where dollar sales captures total output and number of employees measures labor input.11…”
Diverging Trends in National and Local Concentration (2018, unknown): “However, the sector-level of aggregation presented in Figure (7) obscures considerable heterogeneity within industries in a given sector.”
Estimating Network Economies in Retail Chains: A Revealed Preference Approach (2010, background): “…the static entry literature that started with Bresnahan and Reiss (1990, 1991) and Berry (1992).4 We also contribute to a growing literature on WalMart itself, which includes Basker (2005, 2007), Hausman and Leibtag (2005), Neumark, Zhang, and Ciccarella (2008), and Zhu, Singh, and Manuszak (2009).”
Financialization, globalization and the making of profits by leading retailers (2012, methodology): “…2001; Guy, 2006; Wood et al., 2006; Askenazy and Weindenfeld, 2008, for the cases of France and the UK), by complementarities between the size of the chains and the scope of their business (Basker, 2007) and by a burst of foreign direct investments (FDIs) in retail in the second half of the 1990s.”
The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density (2008, background): “A regular store sells only 4See, for example, Bresnahan and Reiss (1991) and Toivanen and Waterson (2005). 5Recent papers on Wal-Mart include Basker (2005, 2007), Stone (1995), Hausman and Leibtag (2007), Ghemawat, Mark, and Bradley (2004), and Neumark, Zhang, and Ciccarella (2008).”
Multi-category competition and market power: a model of supermarket pricing (2017, background): “Thus indirect variable utility (4) is w(c, p) = (μd(c,p)−αpd(c,p))q(c, p)−0.”
Supersizing Supercenters? The Impact of Wal-Mart Supercenters on Body Mass Index and Obesity (2011, background): “(2007) found negative effects on retail earnings and health benefits, and Carden et al. (2009a) found no effect on social capital. Identifying Walmart’s effect using the interaction of time and distance from Benton County is appealing for several reasons. First, it is a natural approach given Walmar”