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Manufacturers and Retailers in the Global Economy

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  • Horst Raff
  • Nicolas Schmitt

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We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in order to understand how these two industries interact and how labor is allocated between them. We show that the observed shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the rise in retailer product assortment and the emergence of slotting allowances in many retail markets are consistent with the global integration of product markets, while higher retail market concentration is best explained by technological change in retailing. We also identify a novel benefit from market integration consisting of efficiency gains in the vertical distribution chain

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Paper provided by Kiel Institute for the World Economy in its series Kiel Working Papers with number 1711.

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Length: 30 pages
Date of creation: Jun 2011
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Handle: RePEc:kie:kieliw:1711

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Keywords: international trade; product variety; retailing; slotting allowance; multi-product firms;

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  1. Horst Raff & Nicolas Schmitt, 2000. "Endogenous Vertical Restraints in International Trade," CESifo Working Paper Series 284, CESifo Group Munich.
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  1. Horst Raff & Nicolas Schmitt, 2012. "Imports and the structure of retail markets," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 45(4), pages 1431-1455, November.

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