Beyond Firm and Industry Effects on Profitability in Imperfect Markets
利用联邦贸易委员会的业务线数据，发现行业集中度对盈利能力的影响被误解，因为未考虑资本密集度；市场集中度而非市场份额是主要结构决定因素，企业效应显著但传统模型解释力有限。
The Federal Trade Commission's Line of Business data imply that the effect of an industry's seller concentration on profitability has been misinterpreted because it has not been conditioned on capital intensity. Conclusions that market share rather than seller concentration is the primary structural determinant of profitability, and that mutual dependence recognized among oligopolistic sellers is less important than superiority effects of large-share firms, appear unwarranted. Significant firm effects exist, and explanatory power for a conventional model of structure and performance is found to be small relative to that of the general linear model within which the conventional model is nested.