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Slotting allowances and price‐cost margins: A note
Author(s) -
Azzam; Azzeddine M.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
agribusiness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.57
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1520-6297
pISSN - 0742-4477
DOI - 10.1002/agr.1025
Subject(s) - allowance (engineering) , compensation (psychology) , economics , microeconomics , industrial organization , business , marketing , operations management , psychology , psychoanalysis
It has become common practice for retail grocers to charge grocery manufacturers a slotting allowance for placing products on the retail shelf. Manufacturers view the allowance as anti‐competitive. Retailers view it as compensation for the risks associated with stocking new products. The largely theoretical literature on the subject is consistent with both views. This article proposes an empirical model to test the effect of slotting allowances on performance, and discusses if and how the model can be tied to the qualitative predictions of existing theoretical literature. [JEL classification: L100, L140, L420] © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.