Abstract
A central theme of this survey is to emphasize the already perceptible movement of empirical scholars from a narrow concern with the role of firm size and market concentration toward a broader consideration of the fundamental determinants of technical change in industry.
Keywords
Theme (computing)Empirical researchMarket structureEconomic geographyIndustrial organizationBusinessEconomics
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- Year
- 1989
- Type
- preprint
- Volume
- 2
- Pages
- 1059-1107
- Citations
- 1425
- Access
- Closed
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Richard C. Levin,
Wesley M. Cohen
(1989).
Empirical studies of innovation and market structure.
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
, 2
, 1059-1107.