If You Sum the Squares of the Market Shares of Each

question 254

Multiple Choice

If you sum the squares of the market shares of each firm in an industry (as measured by percent of industry sales) , you are calculating the

• A)four-firm concentration ratio.
• B)Herfindahl index.
• C)degree of collusion.
• D)Lerner index.

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