When is concentration beneficial? Evidence from U.S. manufacturing
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Keywords
Concentration; welfare; economies of size; market power; manufacturing;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
- L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General
- D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
- F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2009-04-25 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-EFF-2009-04-25 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-MIC-2009-04-25 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-URE-2009-04-25 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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