"哈客隆"现象与大型百货商店改革

大型百货商店改革一直是我国零售业改革的难点和重点.从脱胎于大型百货商店的哈客隆连锁超市的崛起入手,探讨在新的市场环境下,大型百货商店如何摆脱困境,参与市场竞争,重振辉煌,从而找到我国零售业中的新型业态--连锁超市的发展之路.     

连锁经营物流配送系统的动态分析模型研究

本文提出了研究连锁经营零售商业的物流配送总体计划的大型线性目标规划数学模型,并用动态目标规划的方法来模拟和动态地分析配送系统运行性能和合理性。详细论述了模型结构,并以大型问题的实例进行了测试,证实了方法的正确性和可用性。     

Manufacturer suggested retail prices,loss aversion and competition

We study a model of vertical relations with imperfect retail competition in which a fraction of the consumers display reference-dependent demand with respect to the manufacturer’s suggested retail price. We demonstrate that in equilibrium the suggestion will either be undercut or complied with by the retailers, but never surpassed: undercutting occurs if competition is fierce, the impact from consumers affected by reference-dependent preferences is significant, and high price suggestions are credible; compliance occurs otherwise. We provide comparisons, and discuss implications, for consumer surplus for the scenarios with suggested retail prices, without vertical restraints and with resale price maintenance.     

Traffic‐Based Labor Planning in Retail Stores

Staffing decisions are crucial for retailers since staffing levels affect store performance and labor‐related expenses constitute one of the largest components of retailers’ operating costs. With the goal of improving staffing decisions and store performance, we develop a labor‐planning framework using proprietary data from an apparel retail chain. First, we propose a sales response function based on labor adequacy (the labor to traffic ratio) that exhibits variable elasticity of substitution between traffic and labor. When compared to a frequently used function with constant elasticity of substitution, our proposed function exploits information content from data more effectively and better predicts sales under extreme labor/traffic conditions. We use the validated sales response function to develop a data‐driven staffing heuristic that incorporates the prediction loss function and uses past traffic to predict optimal labor. In counterfactual experimentation, we show that profits achieved by our heuristic are within 0.5% of the optimal (attainable if perfect traffic information was available) under stable traffic conditions, and within 2.5% of the optimal under extreme traffic variability. We conclude by discussing implications of our findings for researchers and practitioners.     

When to Carry Eccentric Products? Optimal Retail Assortment under Consumer Returns

To understand whether retailers should consider consumer returns when merchandising, we study how the optimal assortment of a retailer is influenced by its return policy. The retailer selects its assortment from an exogenous set of horizontally differentiated products. Consumers make purchase and keep/return decisions in nested multinomial logit fashion. Our main finding is that the optimal assortment has a distinct structure for relatively strict return policies: it is optimal to offer a mix of the most popular and most eccentric products when the refund amount is sufficiently low, which can be viewed as a form of risk sharing between the retailer and consumers. In contrast, if the refund is sufficiently high or when returns are disallowed, the optimal assortment is composed of only the most popular products (a common finding in the literature). We provide preliminary empirical evidence for one of the key drivers of our results: more eccentric products have higher probability of return—conditional on purchase. In light of our analytical findings and managerial insights, we conclude that retailers should take returns into account when merchandising.     

大型零售企业滥用优势地位的 反垄断规制问题研究 ——-基于双边市场理论的视角

大型零售企业向供货商不合理地收取进场费及返点的行为使零供矛盾不断激化,其行为的违法性及规制问题在学界也始终存在争议。在大型零售企业的市场地位认定中,传统的单边市场模式已无法将市场支配地位与优势地位进行清晰区分。将双边市场模式引入反垄断法领域,为大型零售商滥用优势地位行为的认定和规制提供了新的视角和理论架构。双边市场中,客户对平台的依赖性使平台企业具备了市场优势地位,平台企业不合理收取进场费的行为则构成对优势地位的滥用。我国应加强监管,完善立法,把市场经济新形势下出现的新问题尽可能纳入法律规制的范围,不断完善我国反垄断法的立法与实践。     

服务业集聚水平及其影响因素研究——以广州批发零售业为例

在工业化中后期,服务业的集聚现象是现代经济发展的重要特征。通过对现有文献的梳理,发现涉及到服务业集聚水平的测度的文献较少。本文以此为出发点,在回顾了有关产业集聚测度方面的相关理论后,对CES函数进行了扩展应用,以更好地得到能反映服务业集聚水平的h指数,并从指数中分解出布局集聚经济、城市集聚经济和内部集聚经济等三个因素来分析其具体的影响程度。在此基础上,通过对广州市批发零售业集聚水平的实证发现,广州市批发零售业呈现出了集聚态势,整体行业处于规模报酬递增阶段,从2004年开始有持续上升趋势,但是这一集聚水平明显受到布局集聚经济和城市集聚经济的影响,而内部集聚经济影响不明显。     

广州市服务业集聚水平与影响因素分解的实证研究——以批发零售业为例

产业集聚是现代经济发展的重要特征,特别是后工业时代的到来,服务业集聚受到了学术界越来越多的关注。文章从服务业集聚水平的测度出发,对CES函数进行了扩展应用,以更好地得到能反映服务业集聚水平的h指数,并从指数中分解出布局集聚经济、城市集聚经济和内部集聚经济等三个因素来分析其具体的影响程度,在此基础上,通过对广州市批发零售业集聚水平的实证分析,以了解其基本状态和发展趋势。     

黑龙江省零售业整体竞争力测评

经过20多年的改革开放,黑龙江省零售业已进入快速发展阶段。黑龙江省零售业市场结构存在着市场集中度低,产品差异性小,过度进入等诸多问题,制约了零售业的健康持续发展,严重影响了零售企业的竞争力。因此,我省应该制定相应的产业组织政策,通过提高进入壁垒,培育大型零售企业和企业集团,提高市场集中度等措施来培育黑龙江省零售业有效竞争模式,增强我省零售业的竞争力。     

开放条件下中国零售组织的市场结构与政策构建

开放条件下外资零售企业的快速进入是一种必然，但是对于中国零售组织的产业政策，政府却处于两难困境。基于理论分析认为：短期内政府应鼓励国内零售企业的适度集中，以便与外资零售企业进行竞争，适宜构建以“寡头竞争”型为主的市场结构；但是从长远来看，从消费者利益考虑，“垄断竞争”型市场结构将是较为理想的选择。