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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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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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Demand forces of technical change: Evidence from the Chinese manufacturing industry
Beerli, Andreas; Weiss, Franziska J.; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011969189
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790387
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Kilpailun kehitys ja kannattavuuden mikrodynamiikka Suomen yrityssektorilla
Maliranta, Mika (contributor) - 2008
The use of traditional industry-level profitability indicators for assessing the state of competition is problematic for two reasons. First, short-term variation reflects business cycles more than it does the impact of competition policy. Second, rough industry-level indicators hide different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763020
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Product pricing when demand follows a rule of thumb
Matzke, Christina; Wirth, Benedikt - 2009
We analyze the strategic behavior of firms when demand is determined by a rule of thumb behavior of consumers. We assume consumer dynamics where individual consumers follow simple behavioral decision rules governed by imitation and habit as suggested in consumer research. On this basis, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850650
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Retail price stickiness, market structure and distribution channels
Matsuoka, Takayasu - 2012
concentration. We also find that structural factors of a distribution channel are significantly correlated with rigidity in retail …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532848
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Market structure and cost pass-through in retail
Hong, Gee Hee; Li, Nicholas - 2013
We examine the extent to which vertical and horizontal market structure can together explain incomplete retail pass-through. To answer this question, we use scanner data from a large U.S. retailer to estimate product level pass-through for three different vertical structures: national brands,...
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