Symeonidis, George (1997) Price competition and market structure: the impact of restrictive practices legislation on concentration in the UK. EI (18). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.
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This paper examines the impact of firms' conduct on market structure. It studies the evolution of concentration in UK manufacturing following the abolition of cartels using a theoretical framework based on Sutton's theory of market structure and a panel data set for four-digit industries over 1958-1977. The econometric results suggest that the intensity of price competition has a positive impact on concentration in exogenous sunk cost industries as well as in advertising-intensive and R&D-intensive industries. The concentration-market size relationship, while negative in exogenous sunk cost industries, breaks down in industries with high advertising or R&D-intensity.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk |
| Additional Information: | © 1997 George Symeonidis |
| Divisions: | STICERD |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jul 2008 08:47 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 19:39 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/6760 |
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