markups from both value added and sales and empirically test whether some of the global trends in market power can be seen in … Slovak firm level data as well. I find that the markups in Slovakia in fact declined since 2010, both in terms of value added … and sales. Although the decrease in sales markups is negligible, the value added aggregate markup declined by 25% from 2 …

and high firm markups. This paper reviews the existing literature and discusses what can be learnt from new administrative … firm-level panel data. I present new evidence on South African markups, industrial concentration, and the firm …-size distribution, for sectors across the South African economy. I find that conclusions on whether markups are 'high' or 'low' are …

While there is widespread evidence of increasing markups in the United States and other developed economies in the last …--measured as price-cost markups--in the six largest Latin American economies from a worldwide perspective. First, average markups … deciles. Third, in contrast to the prediction of most theories about endogenously variable markups, I document a nonlinear …

(Price, Market Share and Characteristics). We estimate company (product) mark-ups consistent with a structural model of …

We consider a standard result of customer market theory: if firms have stable customer relations and face financial … Survey. All things being equal, financially constrained firms charge higher markups when faced with low demand; this …

) linked with balance sheet data to study the relationship between key aspects of globalization and firm-level markups. The … main results are: (i) Exporting is positively correlated with markups; (ii) Importing intermediate inputs and outsourcing … are also positively correlated with markups; (iii) Firms with affiliates have higher markups than other firms, while …

This paper studies the relationship between firm markups and importing intermediate inputs and exporting using detailed …

factor prices has a positive effect on markups. We show theoretically that firms with higher shares of inputs with volatile … prices set higher markups. We use the Bartik shift-share approach to empirically test whether firms which use more oil … relative to other inputs set higher markups when oil prices are more volatile. Our estimates imply that a one standard …