Concentration in international markets: Evidence from US imports

Arbeitspapier

We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the typical industry, while it is stable by industry and country of origin. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive margin: the number of exporting firm has grown, and the number of exported products has fallen more for top firms. Instead, average revenue per product of top firms has increased. At the industry level, top firms are converging, but top firms within country are diverging. These facts suggest that intensi.ed competition in international markets coexists with growing concentration among national producers.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 883

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Macroeconomics: Production ; Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
• Thema: Superstar Firms ; Concentration ; US Imports ; Firm Heterogeneity ; International Trade

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bonfiglioli, Alessandra ; Crinò, Rosario ; Gancia, Gino Alessandro
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance
• (wo): London
• (wann): 2019

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/210440
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ