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urn:NBN:nl:ui:15-1765/9663 2012-11-14T12:34:02 mods http://hdl.handle.net/1765/9663 hdl:1765/9663 urn:NBN:nl:ui:15-1765/9663 doi:10.1007/BF01531914 Firm-size distribution and price-cost margins in Dutch manufacturing text article http://hdl.handle.net/1765/9663 http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/9663/publisher%27s%20version.url.txt http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/9663/20070208001%2893%29.pdf Industrial economists surmise a relation between the size distribution of firms and performance. Usually, attention is focused on the high end of the size distribution. The widely used 4-firm seller concentration, C4, ignores what happens at the low end of the size distribution. An investigation is presented of the extent to which the level and the growth of small business presence influence price-cost margins in Dutch manufacturing. A large data set of 66 industries for a 13-year period is used. This allows the investigation of both small business influences within a framework in which that of many other market structure variables is also studied. Evidence is shown that price-cost margins are influenced by large firm dominance, growth in small business presence, capital intensity, business cycle, international trade, and buyer concentration. Prince, Y.M. Prince Yvonne aut Thurik, A.R. Thurik Roy aut 070119937 Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) Supporting host sht en English Small Business Economics: an entrepreneurship journal 0921-898X 5 3 173 186 ERIM Top-Core Articles http://repub.eur.nl/res/col/9706 1993-09-01 Netherlands manufacturing firm size small business Erasmus University Rotterdam oai:repub.eur.nl/res/pub/9663 IR OAIPMH feed (http://repub.eur.nl/oai) 2007-04-17T12:39:31Z 2011-08-01T12:42:00Z http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess