@article{Caoui:329683,
      recid = {329683},
      author = {Caoui, El Hadi and Hollenbeck, Brett and Osborne, Matthew},
      title = {The Impact of Dollar Store Expansion on Local Market  Structure and Food Access},
      address = {2023-01},
      number = {2479-2022-2131},
      pages = {68},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {This paper studies the expansion of dollar store chains in  the U.S. retail landscape following the Great Recession  (2008–2019). This expansion has been accompanied by growing  public concern over the impact on retail markets and food  accessibility in local communities. We develop an empirical  framework to evaluate this impact and the role of entry  regulation policies. A dynamic game of entry, exit and  investment into spatially differentiated locations is  specified, allowing for chain-level economies of density.  Reduced-form evidence and counterfactual simulations reveal  that dollar store chains compete strongly with the grocery  and convenience segments and that dollar store expansion  has led to a large decline in the number of grocery stores,  and modest but significant reduction in fresh produce  consumption.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/329683},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.329683},
}