Productivity, returns to scale and product differentiation in the retail trade industry: An empirical analysis using Japanese firm-level data

Business & Economics

• Competitive Market 14%
• Department Stores 21%
• Economies of Scale 15%
• Empirical Analysis 45%
• Firm Productivity 18%
• Firm Strategy 17%
• Firm-level Data 68%
• Increasing Returns to Scale 19%
• Industry 23%
• Japanese Firms 72%
• Market Structure 14%
• Monopolistic Competition 19%
• Policy Measures 16%
• Product Differentiation 68%
• Production Function 15%
• Productivity 37%
• Productivity Analysis 21%
• Productivity Growth 14%
• Regulatory Reform 19%
• Retail Trade 77%
• Returns to Scale 69%
• Revenue 17%
• Stores and Supermarkets 27%
• Supermarkets 21%

Social Sciences

• competitive market 16%
• department store 19%
• economy 8%
• firm 50%
• industry 37%
• market 7%
• production function 17%
• regulatory reform 16%
• retail trade 100%
• revenue 11%