Markup dispersion and firm entry : evidence from Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.author | DAMOAH, Kaku Attah | |
| dc.contributor.author | GIOVANNETTI, Giorgia | |
| dc.contributor.author | SANFILIPPO, Marco | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-22T15:48:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-02-22T15:48:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description | First published online: 09 July 2020 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper examines whether and to what extent markups can influence structural transformation in a developing country by creating entry barriers. We exploit information from the Ethiopian annual census of manufacturing establishments to estimate markups and their dispersion at industry and woreda-industry-wide levels. We then analyse the relationship between markup dispersion and firm entry rates in local markets. Results show that higher markup dispersion significantly correlates with lower entry rates into a market, even in the presence of expected positive average markups. Specifically, an increase in dispersion from its median to the values at the 90(th)percentile of the distribution is related to a 4.2% point lower entry rate. This result is robust to different estimation methods as well as to different definitions of the key variables. | en |
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| dc.identifier.citation | Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics, 2021, Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 299-327 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/obes.12384 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 327 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0305-9049 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1468-0084 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 2 | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 299 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/70080 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 83 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
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| dc.publisher | Wiley | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics | en |
| dc.title | Markup dispersion and firm entry : evidence from Ethiopia | en |
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