Price Competition, Business Hours, and Shopping Time Flexibility
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Price Competition , Business Hours , and Shopping Time Flexibility ∗ Oz Shy
We analyze differentiated retail industries where shops engage in two-stage competition with respect to opening hours and prices. We explore the effects of consumers’ shopping time flexibility by comparing bi-directional consumers with forwardor backward-oriented consumers, who can either postpone or advance their shopping, but not both. We demonstrate that retailers with longer opening hours c...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.645881