Despite considerable debate as to Wal-Mart’s impact on retail workers, to date there has been little structural analysis on the topic. This paper measures and tests for Wal-Mart’s monopsony power in local labor markets using a dominant-firm model and data on contiguous U.S. counties where the company operates. Empirical results show that Wal-Mart’s monopsony power over workers varies significan...

Shear and Compressional Wave Velocities along with other Petrophysical Logs, are considered as upmost important data for Hydrocarbon reservoirs characterization. Shear Wave Velocity (Vs) in Well Logging is commonly measured by some sort of Dipole Logging Tools, which are able to acquire Shear Waves as well as Compressional Waves such as Sonic Scanner, DSI (Dipole Shear Sonic imager) by Schlumbe...

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 468 I. A BRIEF SUMMARY OF WAL-MART STORES, INC. V. DUKES .............. 471 II. STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY AND GROSS DISPARITIES OF DISCRIMINATION ........................................................................ 474 A. Commonality and Its Intricate Relationship with Sampling...

Professor Terrance J. Quinn II, Principal Investigator SFOS, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Juneau AK (Phone: 907-796-5457, Email: [email protected]) Ms. Haixue Shen, PhD Graduate Student SFOS, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Juneau AK Dr. Martin Dorn, Co-Investigator Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle WA Dr. James Ianelli, cooperator Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle WA Mr. Ste...

A temperature logger, called “Niphargus”, was developed at the Geological Survey of Belgium to monitor temperature of local natural processes with sensitivity of the order of a few hundredths of degrees to monitor temperature variability in open air, caves, soils and rivers. The newly developed instrument uses a state-of-the-art band-gap silicon temperature sensor with digital output. This sens...

This article examines the impact of Wal-Mart Supercenters’ entry on incumbents’ pricing behavior and demand. Using a structural model and milk data from the Dallas/Fort Worth supermarket chains, empirical results show that an expansion of Supercenters caused incumbents to price milk significantly more competitively, dropping on average 22.5% between 1996 and 2002, in spite of declines in their ...

Using the cases of Wal-Mart and IKEA, this paper takes a productive systems approach to examine ‘varieties of capitalism’ from the perspective of the ways by which production and market relations are structured and prioritised. It considers the nature of these relations and their interaction within the domestic economy and the ways that firms and national systems interact with each other in the...

Business organizations have increasingly become the target of social movement activists, but relatively little is known about the antecedents and effectiveness of these protests. We fill in the literature gap by studying American communities’ protests against Wal-Mart’s entry from 1998 to 2005. The incidence of protests is significantly related to local political ideology, community stability, ...

Antitrust has much more typically focused on the market power of sellers rather than buyers. Recent decades, however, have witnessed the rise of very large buyers in previously more fragmented industries, such as retailing, farming, ranching, natural resource extraction, and health care. The purchasing clout demonstrated by these large buyers, in turn, may enhance the advantage they have vis-à-...

Wal-Mart is a giant in the grocery industry and its influence is growing at a rapid pace. Despite Wal-Mart’s success with Everyday Low Pricing (EDLP), there is little to no evidence to suggest that other supermarket chains wish to follow a similar path. Why? This research addresses this question.