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The Economic Efficiency of Sunday Trading Restrictions

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  • Kay, J A
  • Morris, C N

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Restriction of shop opening hours is current, but controversial, pr actice in Britain and much of Europe. The economic case presented for such restrictions is that, given the constraint that individual shop s may not vary their price by time of day, competitive pressures woul d induce excessive opening at times when high costs would be incurred , such as on Sundays. The authors show that such inefficient equilib ria are a theoretical possibility. Empirical evidence on retail costs and demand in the United Kingdom shows that this case does not arise in practice and that deregulation of opening hours would lead to low er costs and prices. Copyright 1987 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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  • Kay, J A & Morris, C N, 1987. "The Economic Efficiency of Sunday Trading Restrictions," Journal of Industrial Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 36(2), pages 113-129, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jindec:v:36:y:1987:i:2:p:113-29
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    1. Inderst, Roman & Irmen, Andreas, 2005. "Shopping hours and price competition," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 49(5), pages 1105-1124, July.
    2. Elbert Dijkgraaf & Raymond Gradus, 2007. "Explaining Sunday Shop Policies," De Economist, Springer, vol. 155(2), pages 207-219, June.
    3. Kosfeld, Michael, 2002. "Why shops close again: An evolutionary perspective on the deregulation of shopping hours," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 46(1), pages 51-72, January.
    4. Mai Yamada, 2019. "Business Hours, Store Quality, and Social Welfare," Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Springer, vol. 19(3), pages 465-478, September.
    5. Paul Lanoie & Georges A. Tanguay & Luc Vallée, 1994. "Short-term Impact of Shopping-hour Deregulation: Welfare Implications and Policy Analysis," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 20(2), pages 177-188, June.
    6. Batabyal, Amitrajeet A., 2002. "On temporal controls and the stochastic behaviour of renewable natural resources," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 28(1-2), pages 7-12.
    7. Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. & Beladi, Hamid, 2004. "Time restrictions in natural resource management: A dynamic and stochastic analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 157(3), pages 775-783, September.
    8. Oz Shy & Rune Stenbacka, 2008. "Price Competition, Business Hours and Shopping Time Flexibility," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 118(531), pages 1171-1195, August.
    9. Javier de la Ballina Ballina & Rodolfo Vázquez, 2015. "El papel de las bluelaws en los modelos de evolución de los for¬matos comerciales," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 213(2), pages 63-82, June.
    10. Raymond Gradus, 1996. "The economic effects of extending shop opening hours," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 64(3), pages 247-263, October.
    11. Yamada, Mai, 2014. "Opening Hours, Store Quality, and Social Welfare," MPRA Paper 84172, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 24 Jan 2018.
    12. Yamada, Mai, 2014. "Opening Hours, Store Quality, and Social Welfare," MPRA Paper 84105, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 01 Nov 2017.
    13. Tobias Wenzel, 2010. "Liberalization of Opening Hours with Free Entry," German Economic Review, Verein für Socialpolitik, vol. 11(4), pages 511-526, November.
    14. Shy, Oz & Stenbacka, Rune, 2006. "Service hours with asymmetric distributions of ideal service time," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 24(4), pages 763-771, July.
    15. Skuterud, Mikal, 2005. "The impact of Sunday shopping on employment and hours of work in the retail industry: Evidence from Canada," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 49(8), pages 1953-1978, November.
    16. Vitor Miguel Ribeiro, 2014. "Establishing a link between behavior ecconomics and two-sided markets," FEP Working Papers 538, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto.

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