Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52091#.VIVBvWfHRK0 Author(s) R. G. Chambers 1 , R. Färe 2 , S. Grosskopf 2,3 Affiliation(s) 1 University of Maryland, College Park, USA . 2 Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA . 3 CERE, Umeå, Sweden . ABSTRACT This short paper brings together two literatures: the first is the Lerner Index as a measure of imperfect competition familiar from industrial organization and the second is a measure of performance from the efficiency literature, namely the Nerlovian indicator. We show how these may be related and the resulting decomposition of the Lerner index which results. KEYWORDS ...
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