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The Impact of Uncertainty and Sunk Costs on Firm Survival and Industry Dynamics
Ghosal, Vivek - 2002
industries and (iv) marginally increases industry output concentration. Addressing the recent literature, we also control for …
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U.S. market concentration and import competition
Amiti, Mary; Heise, Sebastian - 2021
A rapidly growing literature has shown that market concentration among domestic firms has increased in the United … measures of concentration, once adjusted for sales by foreign exporters, actually stayed constant between 1992 and 2012. We … reconcile these findings by linking part of the increase in domestic concentration to import competition. Although concentration …
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Entry regulations, welfare and determinants of market structure
Maican, Florín G.; Orth, Matilda - 2015
We use a dynamic oligopoly model of entry and exit with store-type differentiation to evaluate how entry regulations affect profitability, market structure and welfare. Based on unique data for all retail food stores in Sweden, we estimate demand, recover variable profits, and estimate entry...
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Entry regulations, product differentiation and determinants of market structure
Maican, Florín G.; Orth, Matilda - 2013
We use a dynamic oligopoly model of entry and exit to evaluate how entry regulations affect profitability and market structure in retail. The model incorporates demand and store-level heterogeneity. Based on unique data for all retail food stores in Sweden, we find that the average entry costs...
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Firm and establishment volatility : the role of sunk costs, profit uncertainty and technological change
Ghosal, Vivek - 2003
The degree of endemic volatility in the number of firms and establishments varies considerably across industries. Examining the within-industry range of variation (max.-min.) of the number of firms over our sample period, the low and high values across U.S. manufacturing industries are 4 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508062
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Firm and Establishment Volatility : The Role of Sunk Costs, Profit Uncertainty and Technological Change
Ghosal, Vivek - 2021
The degree of endemic volatility in the number of firms and establishments varies considerably across industries. Examining the within-industry range of variation (max.-min.) of the number of firms over our sample period, the low and high values across U.S. manufacturing industries are 4 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319863
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Outsourcing and Technological Innovations : A Firm-Level Analysis
Bartel, Ann P.; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2021
This paper presents a dynamic model that analyzes how firms' expectations with regards to technological change influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing rapidly. As the pace of innovations in production...
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Product Quality and Market Size
Berry, Steven; Waldfogel, Joel - 2006
Do larger markets offer better products? The question has implications both for theories of cities and for theories of market organization. We document that in the restaurant industry, where quality is produced largely with variable costs, the range of qualities on offer increases in market...
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Market Size, Structure, and Access : Trade with Capacity Constraints
Soderbery, Anson - 2013
This paper develops a model of international trade where firms are heterogeneous across capacity and productivity. A binding capacity constraint induces firms to raise prices in order to take advantage of access to new markets. This generates markets with a flexible competitive structure giving...
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Market concentration and product variety under spatial competition : evidence from retail gasoline : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Recent Developments in...
Goetz, Georg; Gugler, Klaus - 2004
gasoline market confirms that increases in concentration reduce product variety. Ignoring this product variety effect is likely …
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