The South African economy is generally understood to be characterised by high levels of product market concentration … firm-level panel data. I present new evidence on South African markups, industrial concentration, and the firm … conclusions about industrial concentration using cross-industry study, and that high and growing concentration across the South …

A rapidly growing literature has shown that market concentration among domestic firms has increased in the United … measures of concentration, once adjusted for sales by foreign exporters, actually stayed constant between 1992 and 2012. We … reconcile these findings by linking part of the increase in domestic concentration to import competition. Although concentration …

Industry concentration and markups in the US have been rising over the last 3- 4 decades. However, the causes remain … (large) firms. Regulation driven increase in concentration is associated with lower elasticity of entry with respect to Tobin …

This article derives a European Herfindahl-Hirschman concentration index from 15 micro-aggregated country datasets. In … the last decade, European concentration rose due to a reallocation of economic activity towards large and concentrated … markups stayed constant. Using country-industry variation, we show that changes in concentration are positively associated …

This article derives a European Herfindahl-Hirschman concentration index from 15 micro-aggregated country datasets. In … the last decade, European concentration rose due to a reallocation of economic activity towards large and concentrated … markups stayed constant. Using country-industry variation, we show that changes in concentration are positively associated …

industrial concentration and innovation. The industries having great capital intensity, small employment of labor, and with high … price-cost margins tend to be more concentrated. Cross-section estimates reveal a U-shaped mapping from concentration to …

industrial concentration and innovation. The industries having great capital intensity, small employment of labor, and with high … price-cost margins tend to be more concentrated. Cross-section estimates reveal a U-shaped mapping from concentration to …

market competition is jointly captured by the industry concentration and the average markup. We then provide empirical …

This paper investigates the effect of merger-driven market concentration on the markups of non-merging rival firms in …-year period, we aim to disentangle the impact of full-scale mergers and acquisitions from that due to other concentration …