Research

Fields of Specialization

Food Retailing, Food Manufacturing, Quantitative Marketing, Empirical Industrial Organization

Publications – Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Chenarides, L., Gómez, M. I., Richards, T. J., & Yonezawa, K. (2024). Retail Markups and Discount-Store Entry. Review of Industrial Organization, 64, 147–181. Link

• Yonezawa, K., Gómez, M. I., & McLaughlin, E. W. (2022). Impacts of Minimum Wage Increases in the U.S. Retail Sector: Full-Time versus Part-Time Employment. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 47(2), 324–341. Link

• Yonezawa, K., Gómez, M. I., & Richards, T. J. (2020). The Robinson–Patman Act and Vertical Relationships. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 102(1), 329-352. Link

• Richards, T. J., Hamilton, S. F., & Yonezawa, K. (2018). Retail Market Power in a Shopping Basket Model of Supermarket Competition. Journal of Retailing, 94(3), 328-342. Link

• Kalkbrenner, B., Yonezawa, K., & Roosen, J. (2017). Consumer preferences for electricity tariffs: Does proximity matter? Energy Policy, 107, 413-424. Link

• Yonezawa, K., & Richards, T. J. (2017). Consumer Risk-reduction Behavior and New Product Purchases. Managerial and Decision Economics, 38(7), 1003–1016. Link

• Richards, T. J., Hamilton, S. F., & Yonezawa, K. (2017). Variety and the Cost of Search in Supermarket Retailing. Review of Industrial Organization, 50(3), 263–285. Link

• Yonezawa, K., & Richards, T. J. (2016). Competitive Package Size Decisions. Journal of Retailing, 92(4), 445-469. Link

• Yonezawa, K., & Richards, T. J. (2016). Risk Aversion and Preference for Store Price Format. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 41(3), 425-443. Link

• Richards, T. J., Yonezawa, K., & Winter, S. (2015). Cross-category Effects and Private Labels. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 42(2), 187–216. Link

• Sumita, U., Ise, T., & Yonezawa, K. (2006). Stochastic Analysis of Number of Corporations in A Market Derived from Strategic Policies of Individual Corporations for Market Entry and Retreat. Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan, 49(1), 1-18. Link

Working Papers

• Gavirneni, S., Gómez, M. I., Yonezawa, K., & Zhu, X. (2024). Leveraging Customer Feedback for Product Improvement and Production Quality Control. Link

Selected Work in Progress

• Identifying the Primary Sources of Household Food Waste (with Miguel I. Gómez and Timothy J. Richards).

• Pervasiveness and Welfare Consequences of Quantity Discounts in the Retail Sector (with Alessandro Iaria and Ao Wang).