A Conference on

Grocery Store Antitrust: Historical Retrospective & Current Developments

Sponsored by the Bureau of Economics
Federal Trade Commission

Presentations Given

David R. Bell

• “Internet Grocery Pricing and Growth Strategies”
  • Outline [PDF]
  • Slides [PPT]
  • Slides (Close Up) [PPT]
  • Neighborhood Effects and Trial on the Internet:  Evidence from Grocery Retailing by David Bell and Sanyoung Song by Catherine Tucker
    

Arie Beresteanu

• The Dynamics of Retail Oligopoly [PDF]
  • Comments by Adam Copeland [PDF]

Paul B. Ellickson

• From A&P to Wal-Mart: The Evolution of the Supermarket Industry [PDF]

James A. Fishkin

• Historical Review of FTC Supermarket Merger Enforcement: 1997 - 2001 [PPT]

Thomas J. Holmes

• The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density [PDF]
  • Comments by Brett Wendling [PPT]

Christopher J. MacAvoy

• From the Panel, “Merger Objectives and Merger Review” [PPT]

Daniel P. O'Brien

• Improving Geographic Market Analysis in Spatial Markets [PPT]

David Parker

• Geographic market definition in UK grocery and the chain of substitution [PPT]

Andrew Taylor

• UK Competition Commission Groceries Market Investigation [PPT]

Contents

• Agenda
• Biographies of Participants
• Papers Presented
• Presentations Given
• Transcript
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