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Bottom-Up Markup Fluctuations

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  • Ariel Burstein

    (UCLA)

  • Basile Grassi

    (Bocconi University)

  • Vasco Carvalho

    (U of Cambridge)

Abstract

We examine the ability of a granular oligopolistic model with variable markups to account for salient features of the co-movement between markups and output at the firm-, sectoral- and aggregate levels in French census data.

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  • Ariel Burstein & Basile Grassi & Vasco Carvalho, 2019. "Bottom-Up Markup Fluctuations," 2019 Meeting Papers 505, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    • Handle: RePEc:red:sed019:505
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