Competition policy in a concentrated and globalized retail industry

Stéphane Caprice and Vanessa von Schlippenbach
Additional contact information
Stéphane Caprice: Groupe de recherche en économie mathématique et quantitative - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: During the last decades the face of retailing has changed as a result of an ongoing concentration process and the emergence of increasingly large-scale retail outlets. Retailers constitute, therefore, "strategic gatekeepers" to final consumer markets providing them with buyer power vis-à-vis their suppliers. By preventing market entry, existing retail regulations have further strengthened the dominant position of retailers. In order to overcome the potential abuse of buyer power and thus to circumvent the induced inefficiencies, competition among retailers has to be encouraged. This gains in importance since the retail sector is also characterized by a strong internationalization process affecting both the worldwide spread of retail companies as well as their procurement strategies. In this regard, downstream competition is the only way to compensate the missing global legislation and jurisdiction.

Keywords: BUYER POWER; GLOBALIZATION; RETAIL REGULATION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02656654v1
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Published in Applied Economics Quarterly, 2008, 54 (3), pp.183-202

Downloads: (external link)
https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02656654v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02656654

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().