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The relationship between knowledge intensity and market concentration in European industries : an inverted U-shape / Niels Krap and Johannes Stephan
VerfasserKrap, Niels ; Stephan, Johannes
ErschienenHalle (Saale) : Inst. für Wirtschaftsforschung, 2008 ; Halle, Saale : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 2008
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SpracheEnglisch
SerieIWH-Diskussionspapiere ; 2008,3
URNurn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-7288 
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This paper is motivated by the European Union strategy to secure competitiveness for Europe in the globalising world by focussing on technological supremacy (the Lisbon - agenda). Parallel to that the EU Commission is trying to take a more economic approach to competition policy in general and anti-trust policy in particular. Our analysis tries to establish the relationship between increasing knowledge intensity and the resulting market concentration: if the European Union economy is gradually shifting to a pattern of sectoral specialisation that features a bias on knowledge intensive sectors then this may well have some influence on market concentration and competition policy would have to adjust not to counterfeit the Lisbon-agenda. Following a review of the available theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between knowledge intensity and market structure we use a larger Eurostat database to test the shape of this relationship. Assuming a causality that runs from knowledge to concentration we show that the relationship between knowledge intensity and market structures is in fact different for knowledge intensive industries and we establish a non-linear inverted U-curve shape. -- market structure ; knowledge intensity ; competition policy