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Firm and establishment volatility : the role of sunk costs, profit uncertainty and technological change
Ghosal, Vivek - 2003
The degree of endemic volatility in the number of firms and establishments varies considerably across industries. Examining the within-industry range of variation (max.-min.) of the number of firms over our sample period, the low and high values across U.S. manufacturing industries are 4 and...
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Firm and Establishment Volatility : The Role of Sunk Costs, Profit Uncertainty and Technological Change
Ghosal, Vivek - 2021
The degree of endemic volatility in the number of firms and establishments varies considerably across industries. Examining the within-industry range of variation (max.-min.) of the number of firms over our sample period, the low and high values across U.S. manufacturing industries are 4 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319863
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Outsourcing and Technological Innovations : A Firm-Level Analysis
Bartel, Ann P.; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2021
This paper presents a dynamic model that analyzes how firms' expectations with regards to technological change influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing rapidly. As the pace of innovations in production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325348
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Industrial Concentration in a Liberalising Economy : A Study of Indian Manufacturing
Athreye, Suma; Kapur, Sandeep - 2005
This paper studies industrial concentration in Indian manufacturing sectors over the period 1970 to 1999. Given that … shaped by government policy. Deregulation after 1985 allowed greater scope for competitive processes, so that concentration … whole, concentration levels were indeed more significantly related to industry characteristics after deregulation. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014027947
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Structural changes regarding competition in the Indian corporate sector : an analysis of manufacturing and construction industries
Lyndon, Benito G. - In: International journal of business competition and … 8 (2022) 1/2, pp. 1-25
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014234344
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Demand forces of technical change : evidence from the Chinese manufacturing industry
Beerli, Andreas; Weiss, Franziska; Zilibotti, Fabrizio; … - 2018
This paper investigates the effect of domestic market size on innovation activities across different durable good industries in the Chinese manufacturing sector. We address the endogeneity of market size by an IV strategy, based on a measure of potential market size, which is driven only by...
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Market structure and the pricing of new products : a nested logit approach with asymmetric firms
Bleker, Sylvia; Behrens, Christiaan; Koster, Paul; … - 2014
This article investigates competition in a market with an emerging technology using a discrete choice model to analyze demand and welfare. We focus on industry structure and investigate the impact of different market structures on demand for the new technology and on welfare. The car market...
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Technology Adoption Under Asymmetric Market Structure
Voudon, Benoit - 2019
This paper examines the impact of vertical integration on the timing of adoption of a cost-reducing technology. Combining the technology adoption and vertical relations literatures in a simple duopoly model, I compare the technology adoption patterns under different vertical structures. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890075
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How the internet changed the market for print media
Bhuller, Manudeep; Havnes, Tarjei; McCauley, Jeremy; … - 2020
This paper analyzes how household adoption of broadband internet affected traditional print media, using data from the Norwegian media market over the past two decades. This setting offers unusually rich data on newspaper firms and consumption of print media combined with a plausibly exogenous...
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Rising Markups or Changing Technology?
Foster, Lucia; Haltiwanger, John C.; Tuttle, Cody - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Recent evidence suggests the U.S. business environment is changing, with rising market concentration and markups. The …
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