Ali, Ashiq; Klasa, Sandy; Yeung, Eric - In: Review of Financial Studies 22 (2009) 10, pp. 3839-3871
Industry concentration measures calculated with Compustat data, which cover only the public firms in an industry, are poor proxies for actual industry concentration. These measures have correlations of only 13% with the corresponding U.S. Census measures, which are based on all public and...