This paper analyses two approaches to measuring market power-the commonly used Lerner index and a range of exploitation measures-. Itis argued that the Lerner index is designed to quantify market power fromthe supply side and the exploitation measures are designed to quantify marketpower from...

This paper analyses two approaches to measuring market power -the commonly used Lerner index and a range of exploitation measures-. It is argued that the Lerner index is designed to quantify market power from the supply side, and the exploitation measures are designed to quantify market power...