; ; ; "ActiveFedora::Aggregation::ListSource" . a , ; "Superstores or Mom and Pops? Technology Adoption and Productivity Differences in Retail Trade"; ; "batchuser@example.com"; "Lagakos, David P."; "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis"; "Technology adoption", "Retail trade", "Productivity differences"; "O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence", "O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development", "L81 - Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce", "O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes"; "I document that cross-country productivity differences in retail trade, which employs around 20% of workers, are accounted for in large part by compositional differences. In richer countries, most retailing is done in modern stores, with high measured output per worker, whereas in developing countries, retail trade is dominated by less-productive traditional stores. I hypothesize that developing countries rationally adopt few modern stores since car ownership rates are low. A simple quantitative model of home production supports the role of cars in determining the composition of retail technologies used and retail-sector productivity differences across countries."^^; "2009-06-11"; "2019-06-04T16:25:32.118018214+00:00"^^; "https://doi.org/10.21034/sr.428"; ; "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"; "Thu Nov 7 21:32:12 2019"; "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"; "Research Paper"; "437"; "Staff report (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department)"; "428"; "Technology adoption", "Productivity differences", "Retail trade"; ; ; ; ; "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department"; ; "Publication" . ; .