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Essay: Market share structures: an exhaustive list and a research agenda
(2021)
By applying our approach of temporal morphogenesis , we singled out all 18 429 ways in which a market can be split across different firms. We provide a univocal nomenclature, compute a reference value of the Herfindahl index for each market share structure and lay down a research agenda for empirical and model-based studies, including evolutionary and history-friendly models. The list can be a valuable tool to compare models within and across different traditions of economic thought.