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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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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
This article derives a European Herfindahl-Hirschman concentration index from 15 micro-aggregated country datasets. In … the last decade, European concentration rose due to a reallocation of economic activity towards large and concentrated … markups stayed constant. Using country-industry variation, we show that changes in concentration are positively associated …
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This article derives a European Herfindahl-Hirschman concentration index from 15 micro-aggregated country datasets. In … the last decade, European concentration rose due to a reallocation of economic activity towards large and concentrated … markups stayed constant. Using country-industry variation, we show that changes in concentration are positively associated …
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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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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 Annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014420394
This paper explores entry and exit at a price comparison site (PCS) where the sunk costs of participation are effectively zero. We first use a panel of 295 products on NexTag.com to estimate an error correction model of net entry. While the results support our characterization of the PCS as a...
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