Logistics is a complex set of activities. Hesse and Rodrigue (2004) have developed a much quoted definition that includes a “wide set of activities dedicated to the transformation and circulation of goods, such as the material supply of production, the core distribution and transport function, wholesale and retail and also the provision of households with consumer goods as well as the related i...

Using French data, we provide: a) causal evidence that a drop in local public goods provision decreases private sector activity, and b) consistent with monopsony power of the labor markets. We introduce these two key characteristics an otherwise standard spatial equilibrium model, show it delivers main stylized facts established our particular, share relative to is independent productivity city...

The reduction in distribution costs of digital products has renewed interest in strategies for pricing goods with low marginal costs. In this paper, we evaluate the concept of customized bundling in which consumers can choose up to a quantity M of goods drawn from a larger pool of N different goods (N>M) for a fixed price. We show that the complex mixed bundle problem can be reduced to the cust...

Counterfeiting causes hundreds of billions dollars of losses around the world every year. Due to the growing prominence of online commerce, the seriousness of the situation could soon become much worse. Hence, reaching a clear understanding of the fundamental economic incentives behind this practice is of vital importance. In this paper, we investigate a problem within which a firm selling a co...