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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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000456
The Australian Parliament has passed legislation compelling tobacco products to be sold in ?plain packaging?. This paper reviews this legislation and its likely effects on prices, market structure in the tobacco industry and on smoking behaviour. Industry changes following two previous sets of...
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import substitution in the Philippines have led to high levels of industrial concentration in a few wealthy families and …
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order to understand the market structure, concentration measures (Herfindahl) have been incorporated in the relevant … regulations of United States of America and European Union. In this research, apart from the traditional approaches, concentration … to static measures. According to the findings of this study, concentration in the relevant markets shows decreasing trend …
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