Market Integration and Market Concentration in Horizontally Differentiated Industries [PDF]
This paper derives the impact of market integration on equilibrium firm size and market concentration in horizontally differentiated industries. We show that market concentration (measured by the number of firms) can rise as a consequence of market ...
Carsten Eckel
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Supply changes caused by proprietary hop varieties
Hmeljarski BiltenWe used the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) to evaluate changes of a hop industry concentration and global competitiveness related to the area and production changes in proprietary varieties of hops relative to public varieties.
Douglas MacKinnon, Martin Pavlovič
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Market Concentration and Product Variety under Spatial Competition: Evidence from Retail Gasoline [PDF]
We show that for a spatially differentiated economy reduced product variety is the likely outcome of mergers except in cases where exit costs in relation to (outlet-specific) fixed costs are high.
Georg Goetz, Klaus Gugler
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LIBERALIZATION AND MARKET CONCENTRATION IN THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY: CASE OF CROATIA
Economic Review, 2011 This paper analyzes market concentration on the market of insurance companies in Croatia. For a very long time, Croatian insurance market was dominated by one company.
Lorena Škuflić +2 more
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Price and Cost Impacts of Concentration in Food Manufacturing Revisited
This study estimates the elasticities of wholesale food prices, cost efficiency, and market power with respect to industrial concentration in 35 food processing industries, modifying the model of Lopez, Azzam, and Lirón-España (2002).
Liron-Espana, Carmen +1 more
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Risk, Concentration and Market Power in the Banking Industry: Evidence from the Colombian System (1997-2006) [PDF]
This paper examines the relationship between risk, concentration and the exercise of market power by banking institutions. We use monthly balance-sheet and interest rate data for the Colombian banking system from 1997 to 2006. The evidence shows that, in
Christian Jaramillo +2 more
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When is Concentration Beneficial?
This paper separates market power and efficiency effects of concentration in a sample of 255 U.S. manufacturing industries and computes welfare changes from rises in concentration.
Liron-Espana, Carmen +1 more
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THE EFFECT OF ENTRY BY WAL-MART SUPERCENTERS ON RETAIL GROCERY CONCENTRATION
The U.S. retail grocery industry shifted from an industry dominated by small grocers serving local markets to one characterized by large retailers present in international markets. Average retail grocery concentration as measured by CR4 increased from 17.
Kim, Sounghun +2 more
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Seller Concentration in Irish Services: Evidence from the Annual Services Inquiry [PDF]
Seller concentration and its interactions on the performance of markets has occupied industrial organisation and competition economists for decades. While there has been much research on concentration in manufacturing markets, few studies have considered
Patrick McCloughan, Conor M. O'Toole
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Market Structure, Concentration Indices and Welfare Cost [PDF]
This paper revisited the analytics of the welfare significance of market imperfections using the industry concentration index. It reopened the issue of how best to measure the concentration index.
Tamunopriye J. Agiobenebo
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