Arbeitspapier

Are there any Cournot industries?

For 70 Japanese manufacturing industries, I test the simple Cournot hypothesis of proportionality between industry price-cost margin and Herfindahl index against the non-nested alternative that the industry price-cost margin remains constant in the face of varying Herfindahl index, as it would under a simple product differentiated Bertrand framework. I then test each of these against the alternative hybrid specification that nests both of them, and from the pairwise tests, compute likelihoods of each specification. The simple Cournot specification is the most likely for five of the industries, the simple Bertrand specification for 35, and the hybrid specification for 30.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ISER Discussion Paper ; No. 766

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General
Thema
Gewinn
Produktionskosten
Konzentrationsindex
Preiswettbewerb
Duopol
Industrie
Japan

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Flath, David
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
(wo)
Osaka
(wann)
2010

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Flath, David
  • Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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