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Historical state and its legacy: another perspective on Dai Viet–Khmer economic division in Vietnam 历史国家及其遗产：越南大越-高棉经济分裂的另一个视角

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Empirical Economics Pub Date : 2024-06-22 DOI: 10.1007/s00181-024-02630-y

Lam Ho Bao

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Gender segregation: analysis across sectoral dominance in the UK labour market 性别隔离：对英国劳动力市场各行业主导地位的分析

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Empirical Economics Pub Date : 2024-06-21 DOI: 10.1007/s00181-024-02611-1

Riccardo Leoncini, Mariele Macaluso, Annalivia Polselli

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Measuring market power: macro- and micro-evidence from Italy 衡量市场力量：意大利的宏观和微观证据

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Empirical Economics Pub Date : 2024-06-20 DOI: 10.1007/s00181-024-02624-w

Emanuela Ciapanna, Sara Formai, Andrea Linarello, Gabriele Rovigatti

{"title":"Measuring market power: macro- and micro-evidence from Italy","authors":"Emanuela Ciapanna, Sara Formai, Andrea Linarello, Gabriele Rovigatti","doi":"10.1007/s00181-024-02624-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-024-02624-w","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we provide an assessment of the evolution of markups in Italy in the last twenty years. To this aim, we resort to both macro- and micro-data and estimation techniques, namely reduced forms accounting measures (price–cost margins) and production function model-based indicators. When using aggregate data, we present a comparative study with respect to the other main Euro area countries, whereas the micro-level analysis focuses on the markup dynamics across and within Italian firms. According to our findings, (i) aggregate markups show flat/slightly decreasing dynamics across EU countries, settling to a 1.1 level on average; (ii) the aggregate dynamics hide substantial cross-sector and cross-firm heterogeneity; (iii) the within-firm component is the most relevant driver of markup dynamics; and (iv) no superstars-driven dynamics emerge: although firms with higher markups show slightly more variation over time, there is no evidence of an increasing trend. Finally, we compare our results with those obtained by De Loecker and Eeckhout (Global market power, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, 2018) and show that they differ mainly because our sample, including non-listed firms, is more representative of the EU corporate sectors. Our study has important policy implications: it warns against blindly extending the conclusions valid for specific contexts to others with different characteristics, while inviting a careful assessment of the actual competitive landscape, based on representative datasets and robust analyses.","PeriodicalId":11642,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Economics","volume":"2016 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141505231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Educational hypogamy and female employment in rural India 印度农村地区教育不足与女性就业

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Empirical Economics Pub Date : 2024-06-18 DOI: 10.1007/s00181-024-02629-5

Punarjit Roychowdhury, Gaurav Dhamija

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Work from home arrangements and organizational performance in Italian SMEs: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic 意大利中小型企业的在家工作安排和组织绩效：来自 COVID-19 大流行病的证据

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Empirical Economics Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1007/s00181-024-02621-z

Laura Abrardi, Elena Grinza, Alessandro Manello, Flavio Porta

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Contesting the public works domain: examining the factors affecting presence and success of SMES in public procurement 争夺公共工程领域：研究影响中小型企业和服务在公共采购中的存在和成功的因素

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Empirical Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-29 DOI: 10.1007/s00181-024-02615-x

Peter Nemec

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Exchange rate misalignments, growth, and institutions 汇率失调、增长和机构

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Empirical Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-25 DOI: 10.1007/s00181-024-02600-4

Jaromír Baxa, Michal Paulus

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‘Bargain your share’: the role of workers’ bargaining power for labor share, with reference to transition economies 讨价还价"：工人讨价还价能力对劳动份额的作用，以转型经济体为参照

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Empirical Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-24 DOI: 10.1007/s00181-024-02602-2

Marjan Petreski, Stefan Tanevski

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Impact of terrorism on child sex at birth: evidence from Pakistan 恐怖主义对儿童出生性别的影响：巴基斯坦的证据

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Empirical Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.1007/s00181-024-02605-z

Khusrav Gaibulloev, Gerel Oyun, Javed Younas

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Do consumer price indices in oil-producing economies respond differently to oil market shocks? Evidence from Canada 产油经济体的消费价格指数对石油市场冲击的反应是否不同？来自加拿大的证据

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Empirical Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.1007/s00181-024-02606-y

Andre Harrison, Annika Segelhorst

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