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Price Formation and Market Structure: The Case of the Inter-war Coal Industry

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This paper is concerned with the question of whether changes in market structure affect pricing behavior, in the context of the interwar U.K. coal-mining industry. In contrast to previous U.K. studies, the authors use time-series data, allowing them to model the dynamics of price adjustment. The problem of measuring market structure is avoided in this case since legislation in the 1930s established cartels and effectively transformed the coal industry from an atomistic to a monopolistic structure. Subsample estimates are presented for the 1920s and 1930s and it is found that, after controlling for other influences, the price-cost mark-up rises on average by around 12 percentage points as a result of cartelization. Copyright 1988 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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  • Henley, Andrew, 1988. "Price Formation and Market Structure: The Case of the Inter-war Coal Industry," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 50(3), pages 263-278, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:obuest:v:50:y:1988:i:3:p:263-78
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    1. Crafts, Nicholas, 2012. "British relative economic decline revisited: The role of competition," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 49(1), pages 17-29.
    2. Gil Montant, 2007. "Northern French coal companies’ performances in 1935-45: a panel data analysis," Working Papers 7024, Economic History Society.
    3. Crafts, Nicholas, 2011. "British Relative Economic Decline Revisited," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 42, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    4. Montant, Gil, 2004. "The effectiveness of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais coal cartel during the inter-war period: a research note," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 41(3), pages 300-307, July.
    5. Nicholas Crafts, 2013. "Returning to growth: lessons from the 1930s," Working Papers 13010, Economic History Society.

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