Measuring Markup and Market Power in Iran's Industrial Sector: Stochastic Frontier Approach
The main purpose of this study was to measure markup and market power in Iran's Manufacturing sector based on Structural approach and Stochastic Frontier method. To meet these ends, while using the data of 130 four-digit industries for the period 1996-2015 and MLE method, the translog cost function were estimated. The resuls indicated that there were non-competitive conditions and oligopoly structure in Iran’s industrial market. Moreover, the results of mark-up estimation showed that P> MC in manufacturing industries and the mark up values in 14% and 86% of industries were low and high, respectively . Overall, the research findings indicated that the dominant aspect in the Iranian industrial market was a monopoly structure and a high percentage of the markets were dominated by a limited number of market participants.
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