Assessing market dominance

Arie Melnik; Oz Shy; Rune Stenbacka

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2008.03.010

Assessing market dominance

Arie Melnik, Oz Shy, Rune Stenbacka

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Abstract

We propose a new measure to assess market dominance. Contrary to concentration measures such as the Herfindahl-Hirschman index that characterizes the concentration of an industry, our dominance measure suggests an approach that classifies when an individual firm has a dominant position. In our measure, the criterion for dominance is relaxed as the intensity of existing competition increases or as entry barriers are lowered. We apply the dominance measure to a number of well-known competition cases.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	63-72
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Volume	68
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2008.03.010
State	Published - Oct 2008

Keywords

Abuse of dominant position
Concentration measures
Dominant position
Firm's dominance
Measure of dominance

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Economics and Econometrics
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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