Figure 15-14 -A Herfindahl-Hirschman Index Is Calculated by

question 267

Multiple Choice

Figure 15-14
-A Herfindahl-Hirschman Index is calculated by

• A) summing the amount of sales by the four largest firms and dividing by total industry sales.
• B) dividing the number of firms wanting to merge by the total number in the industry.
• C) summing the squares of the market shares of each firm in the industry.
• D) summing the advertising expenditures of the firms that want to merge by total industry advertising expenditures.

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