Market Structure: Theory and Evidence

John Sutton

Chapter 35 in Handbook of Industrial Organization, 2007, vol. 3, pp 2301-2368 from Elsevier

Abstract: This chapter reviews the literature which has developed around the `bounds approach' to market structure over the past fifteen years. The focus of this literature lies in explaining cross-industry differences in concentration, and in the size distribution of firms. One of the main ideas involved is that a study of these cross-industry differences offers a powerful way of uncovering the operation of some key competitive mechanisms.

Keywords: industrial; organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 0-444-82435-9
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