IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/qed/wpaper/762.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Firm Turnover and Market Structure: Concentration Statistics as a Misleading Practice

Author

Listed:
  • John R. Baldwin
  • Paul K. Gorecki

Abstract

This paper examines the importance of firm mobility in the Canadian manufacturing sector during the 1970s. Its asks whether turnover measures yield different information about market structure than traditional measures of concentration. Two types of mobility statistics are used. The first focuses on firm entry and exit; the second measures mobility within the set of continuing firms. These measures depict a system undergoing substantial change -- in contrast to concentration statistics. We conclude that mobility statistics offer a richer and more diverse set of characteristics for measuring market structure.

Suggested Citation

  • John R. Baldwin & Paul K. Gorecki, 1989. "Firm Turnover and Market Structure: Concentration Statistics as a Misleading Practice," Working Paper 762, Economics Department, Queen's University.
    • Handle: RePEc:qed:wpaper:762
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:qed:wpaper:762. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Mark Babcock (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/qedquca.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.