Empirical Models of Firms and Industries

49 Pages Posted: 28 Apr 2017

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Victor Aguirregabiria

University of Toronto - Department of Economics

Margaret E. Slade

University of British Columbia (UBC)

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Date Written: April 25, 2017

Abstract

We review important developments in Empirical Industrial Organization (IO) over the last three decades. The paper is organized around six topics: collusion, demand, productivity, industry dynamics, interfirm contracts, and auctions. We present models that are workhorses in empirical IO, and describe applications. For each topic, we discuss at least one empirical application using Canadian data.

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Aguirregabiria, Victor and Slade, Margaret E., Empirical Models of Firms and Industries (April 25, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2960304 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2960304

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