'Twas Four Weeks before Christmas: Retail Sales and the Length of the Christmas Shopping Season
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- Basker, Emek, 2005. "'Twas four weeks before Christmas: Retail sales and the length of the Christmas shopping season," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 89(3), pages 317-322, December.
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Keywords
Christmas; Retail; Shopping;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L81 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ACC-2005-01-02 (Accounting and Auditing)
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