Mark-up and Cost Dispersion across Firms: Direct Evidence from Producer Surveys in Pakistan

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Titel: Mark-up and Cost Dispersion across Firms : Direct Evidence from Producer Surveys in Pakistan

Beteiligte: Atkin, David [Verfasser:in]; Chaudhry, Azam [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Khandelwal, Amit K. [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Verhoogen, Eric [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Chaudry, Shamyla [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]

Körperschaft: National Bureau of Economic Research

Erschienen: Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2015

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.3386/w20868

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Beschreibung: Researchers typically invoke theoretical assumptions to estimate mark-ups. Instead, we directly obtain mark-ups by surveying Pakistani soccer-ball producers. We document six facts: (1) Mark-ups are more dispersed than costs; (2) Mark-ups and costs increase with firm size; (3) The mark-up elasticity with respect to size exceeds the cost elasticity; (4) Costs increase with size because larger firms use higher-quality inputs; (5) Larger firms charge higher mark-ups because they have higher production shares of high-quality balls that carry higher mark-ups, and because they charge higher mark-ups conditional on ball type; (6) Correlations suggest marketing efforts are important for generating higher mark-ups

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