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industries and (iv) marginally increases industry output concentration. Addressing the recent literature, we also control for …
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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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We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the … typical industry, while it is stable by industry and country of origin. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive … concentration among national producers. …
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We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the … typical industry, while it is stable by industry and origin country. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive … firms within country are diverging. Finally, higher concentration from an origin country is associated with a fall in prices …
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monopoly now features so prominently on the political and economic agenda. Mounting evidence shows that corporate concentration … stifles innovation and investment, resulting in lower-quality goods and services and less economic dynamism. Concentration is … people come to recognize the role of federal and state-level taxation in understanding corporate concentration in the US. Yet …
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A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization based approach to large data sets for European and U.S. banks, we offer new empirical evidence that efficiency plays a key role in the transmission from competition to soundness....
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factors potentially contributing to the downward trends: increased industrial concentration, changing labour market conditions …
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As the U.S. banking industry continuously evolves, changes in industry composition have a direct impact on the aggregate performance of the industry. This paper presents a new decomposition framework for commercial banks and shows both firm-level changes and dynamic reallocation effects - due to...
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This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and how firms respond to the economic...
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This paper estimates a dynamic, structural model of entry and exit in an oligopolistic industry and uses it to quantify the determinants of market structure and long-run firm values for two U.S. service industries, dentists and chiropractors. Entry costs faced by potential entrants, fixed costs...
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