This paper uses newly available firm-level tax data to evaluate the market structure in South African manufacturing … sectors in the period 2010-12. To describe the market structure we compute markups for South African manufacturing firms and … concentration indexes for 4-digit manufacturing sectors. We find both significant markups and significant concentration across most …

share of world trade were accompanied by a perceptible process of manufacturing transformation. This paper, using data from …). We find evidence of upgrading capable of explaining a quarter of the firms' average annual price increases (about 0.5 out …

In this paper, we study a new channel to explain firms' price setting behavior. We propose that uncertainty about … 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 …

compared to previous studies and use Swedish firm-level inventory data on finished goods of own production to measure the …

This paper studies the relationship between firm-level markups and trade status using balance sheet information linked … markups both across and within firms. We argue that this correlation can reflect three channels: self-selection, higher … as a source of increased firm-level competitiveness. …

Cost ; Managerial and Customer Cost of Price Adjustment ; Pricing ; Price System ; Price Setting ; New Keynesian Economics …