Friday, October 4, 2019
Alex Gross presented his job market paper, "Private Labels and Bargaining in the Supply Chain: The Case of Wine," at the 46th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) in Barcelona, Spain, in August 2019. In this paper, he shows that offering private label products can significantly increase a retailer's profits on national brand products. The conference offered a great opportunity to receive feedback on his work and meet prominent researchers in his field.