We construct a model of trade with heterogeneous retailers to examine the effects of trade liberalization on retail market structure, imports and social welfare. We are especially interested in investigating the transmission of lower import prices into consumer prices and the effects of retail market regulation. The paper shows that changes in import prices may have large effects on consumer pr...

Guest editorial Preface This special issue of the International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) is devoted to the long-standing applied field of retail geography. The five papers in this special issue address three areas of retail geography: namely, the identification of retail structure, the tracking of retail change and the development of retail location decision support tools....

Residential photovoltaic (PV) systems in the US are often compensated at the customer’s underlying retail electricity rate through net metering. Given the uncertainty in future retail rates and the inherent links between rates and the economics of behind-the-meter PV, there is growing interest in understanding how potential changes in rates may impact the value of bill savings from PV. In this ...

rice production in most of asian countries has been increased more rapidly than population and this has been led to increase in supply and proportionately decrease in the real price of rice in world and domestic markets. furthermore, together with growth in production and national gross income of the country per-capita income has been increased and also demand for rice at national and internati...

The paper presents a Geographic Information System (GIS)-based approach to quantifying and comparing retail structures. It explores the retail landscape of the three largest market towns in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland, namely: Clonmel, Thurles and Nenagh. The context for the study is provided through an overview of recent changes in the Irish retail sector, the dynamic of market towns...

Slotting fees are fixed charges paid by food manufacturers to retailers for access to the retail market. The role of the practice and its effects on market efficiency are highly controversial. While the literature to date has largely focused on the effect of the practice on retail prices, it is also clear that slotting allowances have the potential to alter product variety in the market equilib...

Residential photovoltaic (PV) systems in the US are often compensated at the customer’s underlying retail electricity rate through net metering. Given the uncertainty in future retail rates and the inherent links between rates and the economics of behind-the-meter PV, there is growing interest in understanding how potential changes in rates may impact the value of bill savings from PV. In this ...

In this paper, the Bertrand's price competition in the retail duopoly with asymmetric costs is analyzed. Retailers sell substitute products in the framework of the classical economic order quantity (EOQ) model with linear demand function. The market potential and competitor price are considered to be the bifurcation parameters of retailers. Levels of the barriers to market penetration depending...

Previous research has reported that the real estate market for retail space is slow to adjust, however, comparatively little research has investigated the supply of retail space for individual metropolitan markets. This study presents our findings by metropolitan statistical area (MSA) of the mean retail space supply lag, the shortand long-run retail space supply elasticities with respect to re...