Evaluating Trade's Competitive Effect from Overall Seller Concentration Estimates: The Case of the OECD Countries

Daniel Mirza

Cahiers de la Maison des Sciences Economiques from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1)

Abstract: This paper presents a new method that estimates the relative selles-concentration of an industry over both domestic and foreign sellers in 14 OECD countries, on the basis of a joint Structure-Performance and Brander-Krugman type model. Results suggest that overall seller-concentration is significantly lower than domestic concentration in only 7 out of 25 ISIC industries. In most other industries the two indexes appear to be very similar. However, foreign exporters contribute up to 40-50% in determining market structures, especially in Europe. Finally, in most of the highly-penetrated industries, relative selles-concentration did not decrease over the 1971-1994 period suggesting that openness did not enhance competition in OECD markets

Keywords: Trade; Competition; market concentration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F14 L13 L60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2000-10
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Working Paper: Evaluating Trade's Competitive Effect from Overall Seller Concentration Estimates: the Case of the OECD Countries (2000)
Working Paper: Evaluating Trade's Competitive Effect from Overall Seller Concentration Estimates: The Case of the OECD Countries (2000)
Working Paper: Evaluating Trade's Competitive Effect from Overall Seller Concentration Estimates: The Case of the OECD Countries (2000)
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