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On the examination of non-linear relationship between market structure and performance in the US manufacturing industry
Chen, Chaoyi; Polemis, Michael; Stengos, Thanasēs - In: Economics letters 164 (2018), pp. 1-4
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What Makes a Good Merger? An Analysis of Merger Efficiencies in the U.S. Bottled Water Industry
Zhang, Jun - 2018
I quantify efficiencies that were created following a horizontal merger between Coca-Cola and Glaceau, the manufacturer of Vitaminwater and Smartwater, in the U.S. premium bottled water market. I estimate a structural demand and supply model where manufacturers choose advertising, product...
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Returns to Scale, Productivity and Competition : Empirical Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing and Construction Establishments
Gao, Wei - 2017
techniques to establishment-level data from the U.S. Census of Construction and Manufacturing to assess returns to scale and … from 0.86 in Non-metallic Minerals to 1.3 in Semiconductors. Returns to scale tend to be highest in durable manufacturing …, medium in non-durable manufacturing and lowest in the production of housing. An economy characterized by such differences in …
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Some Observations on Claims That Rising Market Power Is Responsible for US Economy Ills and That Lax Antitrust Is the Villain
Carlton, Dennis W. - 2020
This paper evaluates the recent literature claiming that the US economy has generally become less competitive causing the US economy to perform poorly and that lax antitrust policy is one important reason for the decline in economic performance. Although there certainly are empirical facts...
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Competition and Productivity in the UK and U.S. Tobacco Industries, 1879-1939
Zitzewitz, Eric - 2001
the U.S. appeared to have a slight lead resulting from earlier adoption of cigarette manufacturing machines. After the …
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Labor share decline across US manufacturing sub-sectors: 1979-2019
Sarangi, Swayamsiddha - 2023
This paper studies the sub-sectoral contributions to aggregate manufacturing labor share decline in the US between 1979 … and 2019. Using the Log Mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition, the decline in the manufacturing sector's labor share is … manufacturing. Moreover, low labor share sub-sectors (especially Chemical products, Food and Beverage and Tobacco products, and …
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Inter-organizational linkages and resource dependence
McNaughton, Rod B.; Cozzarin, Brian Paul - In: Cogent economics & finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 2-18
Few studies have examined the relationship between inter-industry, inter-corporate ownership (ICO) patterns and inter-industry resource exchange patterns. Using data from Statistics Canada, this paper reveals a positive association between the degree of ICO linkages and the degree of...
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Who do unions target? : unionization over the life-cycle of US businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402128
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What Businesses Attract Unions? Unionization over the Life‐Cycle of U.S. Establishments
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2016
What type of businesses attract unions? A theory of union learning and organizing is developed to provide an answer to this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize. An establishment becomes unionized if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006702
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization Over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047857