Industry Concentration in Europe and North America

Matěj Bajgar, Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris, Chiara Criscuolo and Jonathan Timmis (jtimmis@worldbank.org)

No 18, OECD Productivity Working Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: This report presents new evidence on industry concentration trends in Europe and in North America. It uses two novel data sources: representative firm-level concentration measures from the OECD MultiProd project, and business-group-level concentration measures using matched Orbis-Worldscope-Zephyr data. Based on the MultiProd data, it finds that between 2001 and 2012 the average industry across 10 European economies saw a 2-3-percentage-point increase in the share of the 10% largest companies in industry sales. Using the Orbis-Worldscope-Zephyr data, it documents a clear increase in industry concentration in Europe as well as in North America between 2000 and 2014 of the order of 4-8 percentage points for the average industry. Over the period, about 3 out of 4 (2-digit) industries in each region saw their concentration increase. The increase is observed for both manufacturing and non-financial services and is not driven by digital-intensive sectors.

Keywords: business dynamics; Industry concentration; measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D4 L11 L25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-01-21
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cfn, nep-com, nep-eur, nep-ind, nep-sbm and nep-ure
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