Homepage for Wal-Mart Data used in The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density,” Econometrica, Vol. 79, No. 1 (January, 2011), 253-302

Posted March 2010

by

Thomas J. Holmes

University of Minnesota, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and NBER

holmes@umn.edu

This page provides links to selected data and programs used in the above paper. See the paper for description of the data and sources. This work was funded by NSF grant SES 0551062.

File	Description	Link to Files	Link to Contents/documentation
Store_openings	Opening dates of Wal-Mart stores and Supercenters, 1962-Jan 31, 2006 (Alaska and Hawaii excluded)	ASCII: store_openings.csv SAS store_openings_sas	store_openings
Distribution_center_openings	Opening dates of General Distribution Centers and Food Distribution Centers	ASCII: DC_openings.csv SAS DC_openings_sas	distribution_center_openings
Model_Calculations	Gauss Programs and Gauss Data sets (in .fmt format) that calculate sales, operating profits, and distribution miles for any given configuration of Wal-Mart stores in any given year	model_calculations_prg.zip model_calculations_dat.zip (149 megabytes)	documentation
Deviations	Data set on payoff to deviations plus an example gauss program running a linear program to find bounds on the τ parameter for Specification 1 (Basic moments) in paper	deviations_prg.zip deviations_dat.zip (100 megabytes)	documentation