South African manufacturing industry structure and its implications for competition policy

Johannes Fedderke and Witness Simbanegavi

No 111, Working Papers from Economic Research Southern Africa

Abstract: This paper surveys the literature on the manufacturing sector in South Africa, focusing on concentration and markup levels, with a view to inform policy. The literature has employed a number of different measures of industrial concentration, namely, the Gini and Rosenbluth indices, the Occupancy Count, the C5% index and, to a lesser extent, Concentration Ratios […]

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Date: 2008-12-01
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