Selling a Cheaper Mousetrap: Wal-Mart's Effect on Retail Prices

By Emek Basker. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing

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The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets (2006, unknown): “12 Using the same instrumental variables strategy, Basker (2005a)”
The Causes and Consequences of Wal-Mart's Growth (2007, methodology): “…from various public sources, including Wal-Mart Annual Reports, annual directories of discount department stores published by Chain Store Guides, and special Wal-Mart editions of Rand McNally Road Atlases (Basker, 2005a).3 I 3 The data are available at http://economics.missouri.edu/ baskere/data/ .”
Openness and Industrial Response in a Wal-Mart World: A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents and Surfactant Producers (2006, unknown): “Using regionspecific prices of several specific consumer goods, Basker (2005) develops an econometric model of price adjustments when a new Wal-Mart enters a region.”
Supersizing Supercenters? The Impact of Wal-Mart Supercenters on Body Mass Index and Obesity (2011, background): “…our scaling of the number of Supercenters in the county by population follows much of the Walmart literature, papers in the literature have also used the raw number of stores (Basker and Noel, 2007) and a binary variable reflecting whether there is at least one store in the county (Basker, 2005b).”
Entry Barriers in Retail Trade (2011, unknown): “The effects on sectoral employment are more controversial and subject of an ongoing debate (Basker 2005a, Basker 2006, Neumark, Zhang & Ciccarella 2008).”
Dancing with a Giant: The Effect of Wal-Mart's Entry into the United Kingdom on the Performance of European Retailers (2008, background): “Not only does Wal-Mart charge lower retail prices, but other players also tend to lower their prices to remain competitive (Basker 2005).”
When Walmart comes to town: Always low housing prices? Always? (2015, unknown): “In fact, Basker (2005b), Hausman and Leibtag (2007), and Basker and Noel (2009) have shown that Walmart ‘‘supercenters’’ that sell groceries offer many identical food items as other grocers at an average price that is substantially lower than their competitors.”
The Evolving Food Chain: Competitive Effects of Wal‐Mart's Entry into the Supermarket Industry (2007, unknown): “Basker (2005) uses a data set of all Wal-Mart’s store locations and opening dates to estimate its effect on average prices of drugstore items such as shampoo and toothpaste, but the prices she uses are average prices across a large number of surveyed establishments, and may include Wal-Mart’s own…”
What Happens When Wal‐Mart Comes to Town: An Empirical Analysis of the Discount Retailing Industry (2008, methodology): “The profit-maximization problem is: 13See Neumark et al (2005) and Basker (2005a).”
Urban Economics and Entrepreneurship (2009, unknown): “See Basker (2005) for evidence that Wal-Mart’s effects are not necessarily negative.”
Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico (2015, unknown): “Basker (2005) analyzes effects on retail employment.”