The retailer facility location problem by Rosenfield, Donald B.

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Are retail traders compensated for providing liquidity? by Barrot, Jean-Noel, Kaniel, Ron, Sraer, David

“…During the financial crisis, French active retail stock traders stepped up to the plate, increased stock holdings, and provided liquidity. …”
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The pricing strategies of online grocery retailers by Aparicio, Diego, Metzman, Zachary, Rigobon, Roberto

“…Our findings reveal a consistent pattern: online retailers exhibit higher price dispersion than their offline counterparts. …”
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Mitigating Spillover in Online Retailing via Replenishment by Acimovic, Jason, Graves, Stephen C

“…Online purchases constitute about one-tenth of U.S. retail sales. The supply chains that support online retailing are fundamentally different from those that support traditional brick-and-mortar stores. …”
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Decision Stages and Asymmetries in Regular Retail Price Pass-Through by McShane, Blakeley B., Chen, Chaoqun, Anderson, Eric T., Simester, Duncan

“…We study the pass-through of wholesale price changes onto regular retail prices using an unusually detailed data set obtained from a major retailer. …”
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Item Aggregation and Column Generation for Online-Retail Inventory Placement by Chen, Annie I., Graves, Stephen C.

“…Problem definition : This paper studies an online retailer’s problem of choosing fulfillment centers in which to place items. …”
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Making Better Fulfillment Decisions on the Fly in an Online Retail Environment by Acimovic, Jason, Graves, Stephen C.

“…Relative to brick-and-mortar retailers, online retailers have the potential to offer more options to their customers, with respect to both inventory as well as delivery times. …”
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Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers by Cavallo, Alberto F.

“…Online prices are increasingly used for measurement and research applications, yet little is known about their relation to prices collected offline, where most retail transactions take place. I conduct the first large-scale comparison of prices simultaneously collected from the websites and physical stores of 56 large multi-channel retailers in 10 countries. …”
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The Pass-Through of RIN Prices to Wholesale and Retail Fuels under the Renewable Fuel Standard by Meiselman, Ben S., Stock, James H., Knittel, Christopher Roland

“…Keywords: E85; Energy prices; Fuels markers; RBOB; Retail fuel spreads; Wholesale fuel spreads…”
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Approximation Algorithms for Dynamic Assortment Optimization Models by Aouad, Ali, Levi, Retsef, Segev, Danny

“…© 2018 INFORMS We consider the single-period joint assortment and inventory planning problem with stochastic demand and dynamic substitution across products, motivated by applications in highly differentiated markets, such as online retailing and airlines. This class of problems is known to be notoriously hard to deal with from a computational standpoint. …”
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The future of digital technologies in marketing: A conceptual framework and an overview by Plangger, Kirk, Grewal, Dhruv, de Ruyter, Ko, Tucker, Catherine

“…Abstract Digital technologies are key to achieving competitive advantage across marketing and retailing contexts. At the same time, marketing managers are confronted with a variety of challenges surrounding the strategic use of these technologies and the need to re-think their digital strategies. …”
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Transportation Fuels Policy Since the OPEC Embargo: Paved with Good Intentions by Knittel, Christopher Roland

“…Currently, some jurisdictions are opening the retail sectors to competition via "retail choice." …”
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Technical Note—Nonlinear Pricing Competition with Private Capacity Information by Nazerzadeh, Hamid, Perakis, Georgia

“…Conditioned on their capacities, the suppliers simultaneously and noncooperatively offer quantity-price schedules to the retailer. Then, the retailer decides on the quantities to purchase from each supplier to maximize his own utility. …”
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How Sales Taxes Affect Customer and Firm Behavior: The Role of Search on the Internet by Anderson, Eric T., Fong, Nathan Minsheng, Simester, Duncan, Tucker, Catherine Elizabeth

“…When a multichannel retailer opens its first retail store in a state, the firm is obligated to collect sales taxes on all Internet and catalog orders shipped to that state. …”
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The Surprising Breadth of Harbingers of Failure by Simester, Duncan, Tucker, Catherine Elizabeth, Yang, Clair

“…The first comparison identifies harbinger zip codes using purchases from one retailer and then evaluates purchases at a different retailer. …”
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Scraped Data and Sticky Prices by Cavallo, Alberto F.

“…I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price stickiness statistics. …”
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Obfuscation, Learning, and the Evolution of Investor Sophistication by Carlin, Bruce Ian, Manso, Gustavo

“…Investor sophistication has lagged behind the growing complexity of retail financial markets. To explore this, we develop a dynamic model to study the interaction between obfuscation and investor sophistica- tion in mutual fund markets. …”
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Does Compliance Pay? Social Standards and Firm-Level Trade by Distelhorst, Greg, Locke, Richard M

“…This study uses new data on retailers and manufacturers to analyze how firm-level trade responds to information about social standards. …”
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Global Purchasing as Labor Regulation: The Missing Middle by Amengual, Matthew, Distelhorst, Gregory M, Tobin, Danny

“…Studying an apparel and equipment retailer with a strong reputation for addressing labor conditions in its suppliers, the authors show that the retailer persuaded factories to improve and terminated factories with poor labor compliance. …”
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Advertising in a Competitive Market: The Role of Product Standards, Customer Learning, and Switching Costs by Anderson, Eric T., Simester, Duncan

“…The field experiment measures the impact of competitors' advertising on sales at a private label apparel retailer. Surprisingly, for a substantial segment of customers, the competitors' advertisements increased sales at this retailer. …”
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