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

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 …

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

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. …

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 …

. However, PCM tends to misrepresent the development of competition over time in markets with few firms and high concentration …

Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The … the period since 1990. The coefficient of unconditional convergence is estimated quite precisely and is large, at 3 …

fiscal convergence criteria written into the Treaty of Maastricht and its Protocols. In order to qualify for full membership …

This paper studies the role of internal migration in income convergence across regions in Japan. Neoclassical theory … predicts that migration should have been an important source of convergence, but regression results suggest otherwise. The … shown that, although this effect did slow down convergence, its magnitude was too small to account for the discrepancy …