Spatial competition in the French supermarket industry
| dc.creator | Turolla, Stéphane | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T13:54:07Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T09:30:11Z | |
| dc.description | This paper challenges the conventional wisdom on the competitive grocery retail sector in France. To that end, I develop a structural model of spatial competition that accounts for (i) market geography on consumers' preferences, and (ii) differences in their shopping list. The demand estimates are used to recover stores' price-cost margin under alternative pricing strategies. I select the best pricing model by applying non-nested tests and show that retailers noticeably distort their offer in highly concentrated markets. Finally, I perform counterfactual experiments to quantify the expected gain of an additional store on consumer welfare and retail prices. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.207984 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/207984/files/WP%20SMART-LERECO%2012-01.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/207984 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/609555 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/207984 | |
| dc.title | Spatial competition in the French supermarket industry | |
| dc.type | Text |