The impact of trade liberalisation on market concentration

In this empirical study, we use the Difference in Difference estimation to investigate the impact of trade liberalisation on market concentration. We include different measures of market concentration to examine the effect of trade liberalisation on different firm levels (e.g., HHI, CR20, CR4, etc.)...

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Main Author: Zhu, Hengxi
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2023
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description In this empirical study, we use the Difference in Difference estimation to investigate the impact of trade liberalisation on market concentration. We include different measures of market concentration to examine the effect of trade liberalisation on different firm levels (e.g., HHI, CR20, CR4, etc.). We employed the Annual Surveyed Industrial Enterprise (ASIE) firm-industry level dataset to compute the market concentration. Our findings show that output tariff reduction has a significant positive impact on market concentration. This result is robust at all levels of market concentration measures. Then, we found that under trade liberalisation, rising market concentration is mainly driven by the decreasing number of firms.
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spelling nottingham-765022025-02-28T15:19:11Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/76502/ The impact of trade liberalisation on market concentration Zhu, Hengxi In this empirical study, we use the Difference in Difference estimation to investigate the impact of trade liberalisation on market concentration. We include different measures of market concentration to examine the effect of trade liberalisation on different firm levels (e.g., HHI, CR20, CR4, etc.). We employed the Annual Surveyed Industrial Enterprise (ASIE) firm-industry level dataset to compute the market concentration. Our findings show that output tariff reduction has a significant positive impact on market concentration. This result is robust at all levels of market concentration measures. Then, we found that under trade liberalisation, rising market concentration is mainly driven by the decreasing number of firms. 2023-12-14 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/76502/1/Hengxi_zhu.pdf Zhu, Hengxi (2023) The impact of trade liberalisation on market concentration. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham. Difference in Difference estimation; Trade liberalisation; Output tariff reduction
spellingShingle Difference in Difference estimation; Trade liberalisation; Output tariff reduction
Zhu, Hengxi
The impact of trade liberalisation on market concentration
title The impact of trade liberalisation on market concentration
title_full The impact of trade liberalisation on market concentration
title_fullStr The impact of trade liberalisation on market concentration
title_full_unstemmed The impact of trade liberalisation on market concentration
title_short The impact of trade liberalisation on market concentration
title_sort impact of trade liberalisation on market concentration
topic Difference in Difference estimation; Trade liberalisation; Output tariff reduction
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/76502/