Abstract:Research QuestionRecent research shows that firm heterogeneity plays a crucial role in understanding the dynamics of aggregate market power. Several factors may influence markup adjustments at the firm level in different ways. In this paper, we analyse the impact of financial shocks on firms' markups, and, in particular, the ability of these shocks to generate heterogeneous markup dynamics across firms.
ContributionWe do so by combining two state-of-the-art approaches and detailed German micro data from the Bu… Show more
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