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A risk map of markups : why we observe mixed behaviors of markups
Kim, Seonghoon; Moon, Seongman - 2014
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Demographic aging and the New Keynesian Phillips Curve
Ambrocio, Gene - 2023
I document a statistical link between old-age dependency ratios and average markups. I propose that a mechanism whereby …
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Markups in US food manufacturing accounting for non-neutral productivity
Jaumandreu Balanzo, Jordi; Lopez, Rigoberto A. - In: Journal of agricultural economics : JAE 75 (2024) 2, pp. 573-591
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Productivity, markups, and reallocation : evidence from French manufacturing firms from 1994 to 2016
De Monte, Enrico - 2024
This paper investigates the evolution of aggregate productivity and markups among French manufacturing firms between … markups are estimated based on a gross output translog production function using popular estimation methods. I find an … aggregate productivity growth of about 34% over the whole period while aggregate markups are found to remain relatively stable …
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Sellers' inflation, profits and conflict : why can large firms hike prices in an emergency?
Weber, Isabella; Wasner, Evan - 2023
The dominant view of inflation holds that it is macroeconomic in origin and must always be tackled with macroeconomic tightening. In contrast, we argue that the US COVID-19 inflation is predominantly a sellers' inflation that derives from microeconomic origins, namely the ability of firms with...
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Perfecting Imperfect Competition
Seißer, Goetz - 2008
This paper addresses the reduction of market failure under imperfect competition. It proposes a taxscheme that provides firms with an incentive to forgo their market power: Firms optimize after-tax profits. Now simply consider a firm´s gross profit margin the unique tax-rate it is charged on...
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Joint Estimation of Price-Cost Margins and Union Bargaining Power for Belgian Manufacturing
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2005
This paper extends Hall's (1988) methodology to analyse imperfections in both the product and the labour market for firms in the Belgian manufacturing industry over the period 1988- 1995. We investigate the heterogeneity in price-cost mark-up and workers' bargaining power parameters among 18...
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Joint Estimation of Mark-up and Bargaining Power Parameters for Belgian Manufacturing
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2002
bargaining power parameters are associated with higher mark-ups and (3) whether both parameters are influenced by cyclical and … effect on the price mark-ups, leaving the bargaining strength of the workers unchanged. Hence, the stringent competition law …
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Licensing technology and foreclosure in contests
Clark, Derek J. (contributor); Foros, Øystein (contributor) - 2008
We consider an industry where one firm with a superior technology competes for market shares with several rivals. The … owner of the superior technology (the dominant firm) can license or transfer the source of its dominance to a subset of … demonstrate that the dominant firm will only make a transfer of the superior technology if it can be used to foreclose some rival …
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Colluding through suppliers
Piccolo, Salvatore; Miklós-Thal, Jeanine - 2012
This article investigates downstream firms' ability to collude in a repeated game of competition between supply chains. We show that downstream firms with buyer power can collude more easily in the output market if they also collude on their input supply contracts. More specifically, an implicit...
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