to reduce market concentration and encourage diversification of revenue, earning assets and non-lending earning assets …, while increasing concentration and diversification of earning assets should be encouraged in Indian banks. Originality …Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the operational efficiency and effects of market concentration and …

concentration followed by an expression of satisfaction could be a useful pattern to detect flow. Unexpectedly, the interviews …

We investigate the effect of industrial concentration on productivity growth, a proxy for innovation, in the U.S. food … industries. Here, we search for a possible critical level of concentration, i.e., the inverted-U hypothesis beyond which its … relationship with productivity can turn negative. Productivity growth is specified as function of growth in concentration and vice …

concentration in U.S. food manufacturing industries. However, unlike these authors, who employed the techniques of the new empirical … industrial organization to investigate increasing concentration, our approach is based on the older tradition of the structure …, meaning that the overall effect of rising concentration has been to lower prices. We suggest the difference is due to the …

Germany excercise market power was not empirically supported despite high national and regional concentration rates in the … gasoline retail market. However, a further concentration of gas stations might lead to a change of the results in the future.  …

consolidate. Yet, we know little about the current concentration of the sector and even less about the degree of competition in … various nonprofit subsectors. In this paper we offer a detailed analysis of concentration patterns across the sector and … analyze variations in these patterns by subsector and metropolitan areas. It is well known that measuring concentration is not …

This paper explores the link between quality, cost and concentration. Using concentration and cost data and product …, random effects estimation explores the impact of concentration and cost on quality. The results demonstrate that overall … market concentration and high fixed costs are both positively correlated with product quality across most industries …