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Acquisitions versus entry: The evolution of concentration

Aydemir, Zava; Schmutzler, Armin - 2002

that all firms play an oligopoly game. We derive conditions under which increasing market concentration arises with myopic …

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Concentration in international markets: Evidence from US imports

Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino … - 2019

We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the … typical industry, while it is stable by industry and country of origin. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive … concentration among national producers. …

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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...

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Market Structure and Market Performance in E-Commerce

Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2012

We investigate the causal effect of market structure on market performance in the consumer electronics. We combine data from Austria's largest online site for price comparisons with retail data on wholesale prices provided by a major hardware producer for consumer electronics. We observe input...

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Entry, exit, and the determinants of market structure

Dunne, Timothy; Klimek, Shawn D.; Roberts, Mark J.; Xu, … - 2013

This paper estimates a dynamic, structural model of entry and exit in an oligopolistic industry and uses it to quantify the determinants of market structure and long-run firm values for two U.S. service industries, dentists and chiropractors. Entry costs faced by potential entrants, fixed costs...

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The choice between arm's-length and relationship debt: Evidence from eLoans

Agarwal, Sumit; Hauswald, Robert - 2008

Using a unique sample of comparable online and in-person loan transactions, we study the determinants of arm's-length and inside lending focusing on the differential information content across debt types. We find that soft private information primarily underlies relationship lending whereas hard...

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Regulating two-sided markets: An empirical investigation

Carbó Valverde, Santiago; Chakravorti, Sujit; … - 2010

Two-sided market theory predicts that platforms may subsidize the participation of one type of agent by extracting surplus from another type to internalize indirect network externalities. However, few empirical studies exist to evaluate the impact of government intervention in these markets. We...

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Consumer choice and merchant acceptance of payment media

Bolt, Wilko; Chakravorti, Sujit - 2008

We study the ability of banks and merchants to influence the consumer's payment instrument choice. Consumers participate in payment card networks to insure themselves against three types of shocks

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Job creation and job destruction in a regulated labor market: The case of Austria

Stiglbauer, Alfred M; Stahl, Florian; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2002

We study Austrian job reallocation in the period of 1978 to 1998, using a large administrative dataset where we correct for spurious entries and exits of firms. We find that on average 9 out of 100 randomly selected jobs were created within the last year, and that about 9 out of randomly...

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Heterogeneous Firms, the Structure of Industry & Trade under Oligopoly

Bekkers, Eddy; Francois, Joseph Francis - 2008

the impact of globalization on markups and pricing, concentration, and productivity. The model nests two workhorse trade … concentration following episodes of integration. Welfare rises with trade liberalization, unless trade costs decline from a … prohibitive level in the short run free exit case. Variation across industries and markets in markups, concentration, and pricing …

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