City Retailers’ Perceptions of Competition: A Choice Experiment

Åsa Lang ()
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Åsa Lang: Dalarna University, Postal: Department of Business Administration, School of Technology and Business Studies, Dalarna, University, Falun, Sweden

No 58, HUI Working Papers from HUI Research

Abstract: The increase and expansion of out-of-town shopping centres is often criticized for out-competing retail business within city centres. City retailers’ own perceptions of competition within and between retail districts are here analyzed via choice experiments in the city of Gävle, Sweden. Choice experiments allow qualitative data to be transformed into quantitative data that can then be analyzed using statistical techniques. The results indicate that city retailers in general perceived a competitive threat within rather than between retail districts. Thus, city retailers do not seem to share policymakers’ concerns that out-of-town shopping centres out-compete retail business within city centres. This implies that city retailers either are naive, or that policy makers tend to overestimate the competitive threat, from out-of-town shopping centres.

Keywords: retail district; location; retail store; distance; experiential shopping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 L13 L81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2012-02-16
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