Search Results - subject:"Firm markup"

Can digital transformation definitely improve firms' markups?

Dai, Xiang; Ma, Haowei; Zhang, Erzhen - In: China finance and economic review : CFER 13 (2024) 1, pp. 23-42

In this paper, digital transformation is included in the heterogeneity model of firms. Based on a general equilibrium analysis, we find that under the effect of diminishing marginal productivity, digital transformation does not always have a positive impact on firms' markups, but has an...

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Agglomeration and Markup

Lu, Yi; Tao, Zhigang; Yu, Linhui - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

study, we use firm markup (defined as the ratio of price over marginal cost) to capture the net impact of agglomeration … impact of agglomeration on firm markup. Our difference-in-differences (DID) estimation shows that agglomeration has a … negative impact on firm markup, suggesting that the devastating competition effect dominates the beneficial spillover effect in …

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