Chapter 35 Market Structure: Theory and Evidence

This chapter reviews the literature which has developed around the ‘bounds approach’ to market structure over the past fifteen years. The focus of this literature lies in explaining cross-industry differences in concentration, and in the size distribution of firms. One of the main ideas involved is that a study of these cross-industry differences offers a powerful way of uncovering the operation of some key competitive mechanisms.

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Sutton, John
Published in:	Handbook of industrial organization : volume 3. - Amsterdam : Elsevier/North Holland, ISBN 978-0-08-055184-5. - 2007, p. 2301-2368
Subject:	Oligopoly \| Industrial structure \| Manufacturing \| Advertising \| R&D \| Size distribution \| Endogenous sunk costs \| Bounds approach \| Oligopol \| Theorie \| Theory \| Marktstruktur \| Market structure \| Werbung \| Sunk Costs \| Sunk costs \| Industrie \| Manufacturing industries \| Unternehmenskonzentration \| Market concentration \| Industrieforschung \| Industrial research \| Betriebsgröße \| Firm size

Type of publication:	Article
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1016/S1573-448X(06)03035-4 [DOI]
Classification:	L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets ; L16 - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics; Macroeconomic Industrial Structure; Industrial Price Indices ; L60 - Industry Studies: Manufacturing. General ; M37 - Advertising
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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