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The Impact of Market Demand and Entry Costs on Market Structure
Siebert, Ralph - 2017
Our study contributes to the literature on industry and firm dynamics. We focus on the question why the number of firms in the semiconductor market follows an inverse U-shaped pattern throughout different product generations. We pay special attention to the fact that the number of firms declined...
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Generic Drug Industry Dynamics
Reiffen, David; Ward, Michael R. - 2003
Because of its unique institutional and regulatory features, the generic drug industry provides a useful laboratory for understanding how competition evolves within a market. We exploit these features to estimate a system of structural relationships in this industry, including the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087735
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The export-productivity link for Brazilian manufacturing firms
Cirera, Xavier; Lederman, Daniel; Mañez Castillejo, Juan A. - 2015
This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) in Brazilian manufacturing firms over … exports significantly, but with stagnant aggregate TFP growth. The authors first estimate firm-level TFP under alternative …). Finally, they test whether exporting boosts firms TFP growth (learning-by-exporting hypothesis) using matching techniques, to …
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Decentralized environmental regulations and plant-level productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018
Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to … literature on the Porter Hypothesis, which posits a positive relationship between environmental regulation and "green" TFP growth … of firms. Our exercise is innovative as Sweden has a unique regulatory structure where the manufacturing plants have to …
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The dynamic linkages between exporting and importing in Colombian manufacturing
Sanchis Llopis, Amparo; Mañez Castillejo, Juan A.; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 31 (2022), pp. 1-33
emerging economy. We use data for manufacturing firms from the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey, for the period 2007 …
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Adverse effects of patent pooling on product development and commercialization
Jeitschko, Thomas D.; Zhang, Nanyun - 2013
The conventional wisdom is that the formation of patent pools is welfare enhancing when patents are complementary, since the pool avoids a double-marginalization problem associated with independent licensing. This conventional wisdom relies on the effects that pooling has on downstream prices....
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Intangible investment and human resources : the new WIFO taxonomy of manufacturing industries
Peneder, Michael - 1999
Statistical cluster techniques are applied in the development of two new taxonomies of manufacturing industries. The …
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Productivity and the product scope of multi-product firms : a test of Feenstra-Ma
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2012 - This version: December 7, 2012
choose to produce. This empirical note takes this Lemma to the data for firms from German manufacturing industries. Empirical …
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On the structural dimension of competitive strategy
Kaniovski, Serguei; Peneder, Michael - 2001
This paper aims at establishing the existence of systematic differences in the nature of competitive strategies available to individual firms across industries. By means of qualitative content analysis, we extracted a matrix of 76 industries times 12 strategies reported as being characteristic...
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Cartel Overcharges : An Empirical Analysis
Bolotova, Yuliya - 2006
Using the overcharge estimates for 406 cartel episodes, I evaluate the impact of cartel characteristics and market environment on the size of the overcharges imposed by cartels in different geographic markets and during six antitrust law regimes starting from the 18th century. I find that the...
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