Markup responses to Chinese imports

Philipp Meinen

Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 141, issue C, 122-124

Abstract: This paper analyzes markup responses of Danish firms to Chinese imports. Besides negative markup responses related to competitive pressure, we present some evidence for marginal cost savings related to Chinese intermediate goods imports which tend to raise firm-level markups.

Keywords: Chinese imports; Markups; Import competition; Offshoring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 F14 L25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.02.004

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