liquidity on the dispersion and mean of industry productivity distributions, as well as on industry concentration measures using … associated with a decline in industry concentration measures. This is consistent with predictions from the standard industry … alternative measures of dispersion and concentration, and alternative methods of estimating total factor productivity …

This article derives a European Herfindahl-Hirschman concentration index from 15 micro-aggregated country datasets. In … the last decade, European concentration rose due to a reallocation of economic activity towards large and concentrated … markups stayed constant. Using country-industry variation, we show that changes in concentration are positively associated …

This article derives a European Herfindahl-Hirschman concentration index from 15 micro-aggregated country datasets. In … the last decade, European concentration rose due to a reallocation of economic activity towards large and concentrated … markups stayed constant. Using country-industry variation, we show that changes in concentration are positively associated …

Concentration has increased over the last 30 years or so in a variety of industries. This development has raised …. There is also concern that rising concentration may be at least symptomatically related to declining business dynamism and … evidence on the interplay between concentration, prices and productivity across several hundred US manufacturing industries …

factors potentially contributing to the downward trends: increased industrial concentration, changing labour market conditions …