DP12074 Empirical Models of Firms and Industries

Author(s):	Victor Aguirregabiria, Margaret E. Slade
Publication Date:	June 2017
Keyword(s):	Collusion, demand for differentiated products, dynamic structural models, empirical auction models, Empirical IO, inter-firm contracts, production functions
JEL(s):	C57, L10, L20, L30, L40, L50
Programme Areas:	Industrial Organization
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We review important developments in Empirical Industrial Organization (IO) over the last three decades. The paper is organized around six topics: collusion, demand, productivity, industry dynamics, inter-firm contracts, and auctions. We present models that are workhorses in empirical IO, and describe applications. For each topic, we discuss at least one empirical application using Canadian data.