This paper addresses the determinants of price-cost margins in U.S. 4-digit industries. Margins are larger in capital intensive and concentrated industries with high growth rates and R & D and advertising to sales ratios. They also fluctuate significantly over the business cycle. We go beyond...

Information on the primal and dual productivity measure is used to estimate industry mark-ups for 4-digit U.S. manufacturing industries. Investigating the relationship between these estimates and various industry characteristics as well as their cyclical intensive industries with high growth...