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Profit Margin Performance and Market structure in Indian Manufacturing Industries

Vinod Kumar Gupta

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Beginning with Joe S. Bain's (1951) study of the relation between profit rate and concentration in American manufacturing industries, there has been a fairly steady stream of studies investigating the relationship of the profitability aspect of market performance with different combinations of variables reflecting different aspects of market structure.

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Key concepts: Profit margin, Profitability index, Market structure, Margin (machine learning), Industrial organization, Profit (economics), Profit rate, Operating margin