The paper uses Gini decomposition analysis to evaluate changes in the spatial distribution and industry shares of total US air traffic, as well as analysing the decomposition components for individual airlines and airports ...
Given that brands (products) are location specific in terms of coverage of retail stores, we allow consumers to have preferences over location and products to carry distribution costs, alongside preferences and costs over ...
Applied Industrial Economics has suffered from the criticism that most of the variables of interest, such as market structure and firm performance are inherently endogenous. We outline the three common approaches to the ...
Sutton (1998) offers us a simple way to model firm size distributions across differentiated products industries. We analyse the implications of this approach for company markups using a structural model for a specific ...
Whelan, Ciara(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2003)
There is a long history of mapping market structure into market power in economic analysis. This paper addresses the validity of this principle for both homogenous and differentiated products industries. While mapping ...
Thresholds defined on the level and change in the HHI (Herfindahl-Hirschmann Index) applied to market shares seem to be the main instrument to select notified mergers for investigation in both the EU and
US. We question ...
Whelan, Ciara; Walsh, Patrick P.(Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2002-08)
Using brand level retail data, the firm size distribution in Carbonated Soft Drinks is shown to be an outcome of the degree to
which firms have placed brands effectively (store coverage) across vertical (flavour, packaging, ...
Naghavi, Alireza(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-04)
I analyze the welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) in developing countries through its impact on innovation, market structure, and technology transfer. FDI, tariffs, and joint ventures (JV) ...