This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...

This paper contributes to the literature on the use of anonymized firm level data by reporting results from a replication study. To test for the practical usefulness of anonymized data I selected two of my published papers based on different cross sections of firm data. The data used there were...

In empirical studies it often happens that some variables for some units are far away from the other observations in the sample. These extreme observations, or outliers, often have a large impact on the results of statistical analyses – conclusions based on a sample with and without these...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt / Contents -- Abhandlungen/Original Papers -- Guest Editorial "Econometrics of Anonymized Micro Data" -- Data Masking by Noise Addition and the Estimation of Nonparametric Regression Models / Lechner, Sandra / Pohlmeier, Winfried -- The Effect of Microaggregation Procedures...