Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,346
Cover Image
Markups and concentration in South African manufacturing sectors : an analysis with administrative data
Fedderke, Johannes W.; Obikili, Nonso; Viegi, Nicola - 2016
concentration indexes for 4-digit manufacturing sectors. We find both significant markups and significant concentration across most … sectors. We compare computed markups and concentration with early estimates in South Africa and with other international … benchmark countries. We then examine the market structure based on the concentration, firms' size, and entry and exit dynamics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458072
Cover Image
Industrial concentration, price-cost margins, and innovation
Flath, David - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921747
Cover Image
Industrial Concentration, Price-Cost Margins, and Innovation
Flath, David - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159744
Cover Image
Kilpailun kehitys ja kannattavuuden mikrodynamiikka Suomen yrityssektorilla
Maliranta, Mika (contributor) - 2008
The use of traditional industry-level profitability indicators for assessing the state of competition is problematic for two reasons. First, short-term variation reflects business cycles more than it does the impact of competition policy. Second, rough industry-level indicators hide different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763020
Cover Image
Product pricing when demand follows a rule of thumb
Matzke, Christina; Wirth, Benedikt - 2009
We analyze the strategic behavior of firms when demand is determined by a rule of thumb behavior of consumers. We assume consumer dynamics where individual consumers follow simple behavioral decision rules governed by imitation and habit as suggested in consumer research. On this basis, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850650
Cover Image
Retail price stickiness, market structure and distribution channels
Matsuoka, Takayasu - 2012
concentration. We also find that structural factors of a distribution channel are significantly correlated with rigidity in retail …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532848
Cover Image
Market structure and cost pass-through in retail
Hong, Gee Hee; Li, Nicholas - 2013
We examine the extent to which vertical and horizontal market structure can together explain incomplete retail pass-through. To answer this question, we use scanner data from a large U.S. retailer to estimate product level pass-through for three different vertical structures: national brands,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009714472
Cover Image
On the importance of sales for aggregate price flexibility
Kryvtsov, Oleksiy; Vincent, Nicolas - 2014
Macroeconomists have traditionally ignored the behavior of temporary price markdowns ("sales") by retailers. Although sales are common in the micro price data, they are assumed to be unrelated to macroeconomic phenomena and generally filtered out. We challenge this view. First, using the 1996 -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418254
Cover Image
The sensitivity of producer prices to exchange rates : insights from micro data
Cao, Shutao; Dong, Wei; Tomlin, Ben - 2012
This paper studies the sensitivity of Canadian producer prices to the Canada-U.S. exchange rate. Using a unique product-level price data set, we estimate and analyze the impact of movements in the exchange rate on both domestic and export producer prices. First, we find that both domestic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009565858
Cover Image
The Effect of Entry and Market Structure on Cellular Pricing Tactics
Seim, Katja - 2012
We test the effect of entry on the tariff choices of incumbent cellular firms. We relate the change in the breadth of calling plans between 1996, when incumbents enjoyed a duopoly market, and 1998, when incumbents faced increased competition from personal communications services (PCS) firms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106726