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dc.contributor.authorHaskel, Jonathanen
dc.contributor.authorSadun, Raffaellaen
dc.date.accessioned2009-03-18-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:58:01Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:58:01Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-20090306217en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35754-
dc.description.abstractWe use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and 2003. We document a shift to smaller shops, particularly within supermarket chains, following a regulatory change in 1996 which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a) lose scale advantages, by moving to smaller stores and (b) lose scope advantages if existing organisational knowledge appropriate to larger stores is not perfectly substitutable with the organisational capital required to run smaller stores. Our micro data shows a relation, controlling for fixed effects, between chain-level TFP for multi-store chains and various measures of the size of the stores within the chain. Our results suggest the fall in within-chain shop sizes was associated with a lowering of chain TFP by about 0.4% pa, about 40% of the post-1995 slowdown in UK retail TFP growth. The foregone productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x4028en
dc.subject.jelD24en
dc.subject.jelL81en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordProductivityen
dc.subject.keywordretailen
dc.subject.keywordregulationen
dc.subject.stwEinzelhandelen
dc.subject.stwHandelsketteen
dc.subject.stwSkalenertragen
dc.subject.stwRegulierungen
dc.subject.stwProduktivitäten
dc.subject.stwGroßbritannienen
dc.titleRegulation and UK retailing productivity: evidence from micro data-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn593989902en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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