TY  - JOUR
AU  - Haltiwanger,John C.
AU  - Jarmin,Ron S.
AU  - Krizan,C. J.
TI  - Mom-and-Pop Meet Big-Box: Complements or Substitutes?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 15348
PY  - 2009
Y2  - September 2009
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15348
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15348.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
John C. Haltiwanger
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: 301/405-3504
Fax: 301/405-3542
E-Mail: haltiwan@econ.umd.edu

Ron S. Jarmin
Center for Economic Studies
U.S. Census Bureau
4600 Silver Hill Road
Washington, DC 20233
Tel: 301.763.1858
Fax: 301.763.5935
E-Mail: ron.s.jarmin@census.gov

C. J. Krizan
Center for Economic Studies
U.S. Census Bureau
4600 Silver Hill Road
Washington, DC 20233
E-Mail: Cornell.J.Krizan@census.gov
M1  - published as 


AB  - In part due to the popular perception that Big-Boxes displace smaller, often family owned (a.k.a. Mom-and-Pop) retail establishments, several empirical studies have examined the evidence on how Big-Boxes’ impact local retail employment but no clear consensus has emerged.  To help shed light on this debate, we exploit establishment-level data with detailed location information from a single metropolitan area to quantify the impact of Big-Box store entry and growth on nearby single unit and local chain stores.  We incorporate a rich set of controls for local retail market conditions as well as whether or not the Big-Boxes are in the same sector as the smaller stores.  We find a substantial negative impact of Big-Box entry and growth on the employment growth at both single unit and especially smaller chain stores – but only when the Big-Box activity is both in the immediate area and in the same detailed industry.
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