• Medientyp: E-Book
  • Titel: Mark-Up and Cost Dispersion Across Firms : Direct Evidence from Producer Surveys in Pakistan
  • Beteiligte: Atkin, David [VerfasserIn]; Chaudhry, Azam [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Chaudry, Shamyla [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Khandelwal, Amit [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Verhoogen, Eric A. [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
  • Erschienen: [S.l.]: SSRN, [2015]
  • Erschienen in: NBER Working Paper ; No. w20868
  • Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (16 p)
  • Sprache: Englisch
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  • Anmerkungen: Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments January 2015 erstellt
  • 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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