Comment on The Recent Evolution of Physical Retail Markets: Online Retailing, Big Box Stores, and the Rise of Restaurants
Published Date
Copyright 2022
ISBN 9780226810782

In this comment, I discuss the Lafontaine and Sivadasan paper and provide some background on measurement: how industry codes are assigned by the US Census Bureau, major development in the evolution of the retail sector, and the uneven effects of e-commerce on retail and consumer-facing service industries.
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Copy CitationEmek Basker, The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth (University of Chicago Press, 2020), https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/role-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-economic-growth/comment-recent-evolution-physical-retail-markets-online-retailing-big-box-stores-and-rise.