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Markups and concentration in South African manufacturing sectors : an analysis with administrative data
Fedderke, Johannes W.; Obikili, Nonso; Viegi, Nicola - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458072
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508062
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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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Brand reallocation and market concentration
Pearce, Jeremy; Wu, Liangjie - 2024
We study the interaction of customer capital and productivity through brand reallocation across firms. We develop a firm dynamics model with brands as transferable customer capital, heterogeneous firm productivity, and variable markups. We study the matching process between transferable brand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062505
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Industrial concentration, price-cost margins, and innovation
Flath, David - 2009
industrial concentration and innovation. The industries having great capital intensity, small employment of labor, and with high … price-cost margins tend to be more concentrated. Cross-section estimates reveal a U-shaped mapping from concentration to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921747
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Industrial Concentration, Price-Cost Margins, and Innovation
Flath, David - 2009
industrial concentration and innovation. The industries having great capital intensity, small employment of labor, and with high … price-cost margins tend to be more concentrated. Cross-section estimates reveal a U-shaped mapping from concentration to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159744
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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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Estimating the Production Function for the Brazilian Industrial Sector : A Bayesian Panel VAR Approach
Lima Filho, Roberto - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059629
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Estimating the production function for the Brazilian industrial sector : a Bayesian panel VAR approach
Lima Filho, Roberto Ivo da Rocha - In: Cogent business & management 9 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16
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