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Business Hours, Store Quality, and Social Welfare

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  • Mai Yamada

    (Showa Women’s University)

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This paper examines retail strategies related to business hours, store quality, and price. We consider a cost regime in which quality investments are more costly for extended business hours. The cost regime captures additional investment costs for customer and security service during late hours. This is a novel feature in the existing literature on retail competition in business hours and prices. We show that a retailer with shorter business hours chooses higher store quality and charges lower prices. We also find that the liberalization of business hours is desirable in view of social welfare because store quality and demand under liberalized business hours are greater than those under regulated business hours.

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  • Mai Yamada, 2019. "Business Hours, Store Quality, and Social Welfare," Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Springer, vol. 19(3), pages 465-478, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jincot:v:19:y:2019:i:3:d:10.1007_s10842-019-00299-z
    DOI: 10.1007/s10842-019-00299-z
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    Keywords

    Business hours; Location; Multi-dimensional product differentiation; Duopoly;
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    JEL classification:

    • D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
    • R32 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - Other Spatial Production and Pricing Analysis

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