In this paper we re-examine empirically the Structure-Conduct-Performance relationship between concentration and … concentration does increase profitability, but only in geographically dispersed industries, suggesting that regional markets are an …

these sectors, a distinction is made between sub-sector groupings that exhibit a high level of concentration and those that … the extent of wage mobility in a given economic sector is negatively related to the degree of concentration in that sector. …

This paper looks for firm-level evidence that high rates of protection breed concentration of firm activities into …

geography exercises (the analysis of spatial concentration, agglomeration economies, and trade determinants), using various …

cost margins, industry wide profits or concentration. All parameterizations of competition, considered here, have two …

A key feature of Soviet-type economies is the excessive concentration of production and the skewed size distribution of …

value of this profit elasticity (PE) signals more intense competition. Using firm-level data we compare PE with the most …. However, PCM tends to misrepresent the development of competition over time in markets with few firms and high concentration …

This Paper analyses the effects of ownership structure on corporate environmental performance and examines the link … from financial performance to environmental performance in a transition economy. In particular, it analyses these ownership … ownership and various types of private ownership, while contrasting concentrated and diffuse forms of private ownership …

corporations. We investigate this question by tracing the ownership and board composition of firms incorporated in around 1900 over … the subsequent 100 years, and comparing the pattern of ownership and control with a sample incorporated around 1960. We … outside equity finance, and there was rapid dispersion of ownership even in the absence of investor protection. The …