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Concentration, Size and Performance of European Firms

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Markets, corporate behaviour and the state

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The empirical work on market structure, conduct and performance in the U.S. has been surveyed by Weiss (1971). To our knowledge no survey of similar work in Europe is available to date, possibly because all studies in the area are recent while scholars are few. This is an attempt to fill the gap with no pretention to covering the entire field. In fact, we want to focus on concentration.

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  1. University of Louvain, Belgium

    A. P. Jacquemin (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

  2. Instituut voor Bedrijfskunde, Nijenrode, The Netherlands

    H. W. de Jong (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

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Jacquemin, A.P., Phlips, L. (1976). Concentration, Size and Performance of European Firms. In: Jacquemin, A.P., de Jong, H.W. (eds) Markets, corporate behaviour and the state. Nijenrode Studies in Economics, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4376-9_4

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