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dc.contributor.authorKrap, Nielsen
dc.contributor.authorStephan, Johannesen
dc.date.accessioned2010-05-14T13:30:23Z-
dc.date.available2010-05-14T13:30:23Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-7288en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/29979-
dc.description.abstractThis paper is motivated by the European Union strategy to secure competitiveness for Europe in the globalising world by focussing on technological supremacy (the Lisbon - agenda). Parallel to that, the EU Commission is trying to take a more economic approach to competition policy in general and anti-trust policy in particular. Our analysis tries to establish the relationship between increasing knowledge intensity and the resulting market concentration: if the European Union economy is gradually shifting to a pattern of sectoral specialisation that features a bias on knowledge intensive sectors, then this may well have some influence on market concentration and competition policy would have to adjust not to counterfeit the Lisbon-agenda. Following a review of the available theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between knowledge intensity and market structure, we use a larger Eurostat database to test the shape of this relationship. Assuming a causality that runs from knowledge to concentration, we show that the relationship between knowledge intensity and market structures is in fact different for knowledge intensive industries and we establish a non-linear, inverted U-curve shape.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aLeibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) |cHalle (Saale)en
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIWH Discussion Papers |x3/2008en
dc.subject.jelL16en
dc.subject.jelL40en
dc.subject.jelO33en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordmarket structureen
dc.subject.keywordknowledge intensityen
dc.subject.keywordcompetition policyen
dc.subject.stwWissenen
dc.subject.stwIndustrieen
dc.subject.stwMarktstrukturen
dc.subject.stwWirtschaftskonzentrationen
dc.subject.stwLissabon Strategieen
dc.subject.stwWettbewerbspolitiken
dc.subject.stwEU-Staatenen
dc.titleThe Relationship between Knowledge Intensity and Market Concentration in European Industries: An inverted U-Shape-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn577019252en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:iwhdps:iwh-3-08en

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