Comment on The Recent Evolution of Physical Retail Markets: Online Retailing, Big Box Stores, and the Rise of RestaurantsThis chapter is a preliminary draft unless otherwise noted. It may not have been subjected to the formal review process of the NBER. This page will be updated as the chapter is revised.
Chapter in forthcoming NBER book The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth, Aaron Chatterji, Josh Lerner, Scott Stern, and Michael J. Andrews, editors In this comment, I discuss the Lafontaine and Sivadasan paper and provide some background on measurement: how industry codes are assigned by the US Census Bureau, major development in the evolution of the retail sector, and the uneven effects of e-commerce on retail and consumer-facing service industries. This paper is available as PDF (107 K) or via email
Acknowledgments and Disclosures Machine-readable bibliographic record - MARC, RIS, BibTeX This chapter is a comment on The Recent Evolution of Physical Retail Markets: Online Retailing, Big Box Stores, and the Rise of Restaurants, Francine Lafontaine, Jagadeesh Sivadasan |
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