Industry Concentration in Europe and North America

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 d...

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Main Author: Bajgar, Matej
Other Authors: Berlingieri, Giuseppe, Calligaris, Sara, Criscuolo, Chiara
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2019
Series:OECD Productivity Working Papers
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