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concentration indexes for 4-digit manufacturing sectors. We find both significant markups and significant concentration across most … sectors. We compare computed markups and concentration with early estimates in South Africa and with other international … benchmark countries. We then examine the market structure based on the concentration, firms' size, and entry and exit dynamics …
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A rapidly growing literature has shown that market concentration among domestic firms has increased in the United … measures of concentration, once adjusted for sales by foreign exporters, actually stayed constant between 1992 and 2012. We … reconcile these findings by linking part of the increase in domestic concentration to import competition. Although concentration …
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We use a dynamic oligopoly model of entry and exit to evaluate how entry regulations affect profitability and market structure in retail. The model incorporates demand and store-level heterogeneity. Based on unique data for all retail food stores in Sweden, we find that the average entry costs...
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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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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
Procurement within the NHS is attracting increasing research and policy interest. However, most of the emphasis has been on the buyer (the NHS), with less attention paid to the behaviour of suppliers (often pharmaceutical companies). For medical devices very little is publicly documented about...
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Industry concentration and markups in the US have been rising over the last 3- 4 decades. However, the causes remain … (large) firms. Regulation driven increase in concentration is associated with lower elasticity of entry with respect to Tobin …
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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 …
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The scope of this paper is to estimate the production function for the Brazilian industrial sector from a longitudinal panel of the industrial sector (Annual Industrial Survey produced by the Institute of Geography and Statistics – PIA/IBGE – and the Ministry of Labour and Employment's...
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