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The Impact of Uncertainty and Sunk Costs on Firm Survival and Industry Dynamics
Ghosal, Vivek - 2002
industries and (iv) marginally increases industry output concentration. Addressing the recent literature, we also control for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014118647
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Entry regulations, welfare and determinants of market structure
Maican, Florín G.; Orth, Matilda - 2015
We use a dynamic oligopoly model of entry and exit with store-type differentiation to evaluate how entry regulations affect profitability, market structure and welfare. Based on unique data for all retail food stores in Sweden, we estimate demand, recover variable profits, and estimate entry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412927
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Entry regulations, product differentiation and determinants of market structure
Maican, Florín G.; Orth, Matilda - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010206790
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Product Quality and Market Size
Berry, Steven; Waldfogel, Joel - 2006
Do larger markets offer better products? The question has implications both for theories of cities and for theories of market organization. We document that in the restaurant industry, where quality is produced largely with variable costs, the range of qualities on offer increases in market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062051
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Market concentration and product variety under spatial competition : evidence from retail gasoline
Goetz, Georg; Gugler, Klaus - 2004
gasoline market confirms that increases in concentration reduce product variety. Ignoring this product variety effect is likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261269
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Competition and regulation in a differentiated good market
Fiocco, Raffaele - 2011
) segment. Two possible institutional patterns are compared. Under 'concentration' the regulated firm can enter the competitive … improves (expected) social welfare as long as goods are substitutes. Conversely, concentration performs better in case of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281510
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Market concentration and product variety under spatial competition : evidence from retail gasoline : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Recent Developments in...
Goetz, Georg; Gugler, Klaus - 2004
gasoline market confirms that increases in concentration reduce product variety. Ignoring this product variety effect is likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451069
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Hospital procurement with concentrated sellers : a case study of hip prostheses
Davies, Charlotte; Lorgelly, Paula K. - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221884
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European firm concentration and aggregate productivity
Bighelli, Tommaso; Di Mauro, Filippo; Melitz, Marc J.; … - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012504920
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European firm concentration and aggregate productivity
Bighelli, Tommaso; Di Mauro, Filippo; Melitz, Marc J.; … - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012504955