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Research in the field of IO aims at understanding market structure, i.e., the number of firms in a market, and the role it plays in determining the extent of market competition. In particular, antitrust and regulatory authorities are interested to know how many firms it takes to sustain competition in a market. In this project we plan to investigate the interaction between market structure and firm entry and exit in Austria. Based on detailed matched employer-employee data, we conduct cross-industry studies and provide summary measures of the patterns of entry, growth, and exit of firms in Austrian industries over the period 1978-2008. We further analyze the characteristics of surviving and mature firms as well as entering and exiting firms and look at the determinants of entry modes when multinational firms are setting up affiliates in Austria. We investigate the implications of firm heterogeneity and dynamics on the labor market and aim at understanding the source of productivity differences across firms. Although providing valuable information, cross-industry data do not allow the identification of the interaction among firms. We therefore also conduct industry specific studies. Based on theoretical models that analyze how firms' strategic behavior influences market structure, we draw inferences about the competitive interaction from the equilibrium relationship. In this way, we assess the effect of entry regulations in the health market, study labor demand in the cement industry, vertical relations between industries, and analyze firms’ financial structure, risk and workers’ job and wage security in the hotel industry.

Project Leader

  Zulehner, Christine
 University of Linz
 Industry dynamics and market structure
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Project Members
  Fink, Martina
 University of Linz
 Industry dynamics and market structure
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  Lackner, Mario
 University of Linz
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  Segalla, Esther
 ÖNB
 Industry dynamics and market structure
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   Weichselbaumer, Michael
 University of Linz
 Industry dynamics and market structure
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