Abstract

Because prices exceed marginal costs in many upstream and downstream industries, downstream prices often reflect a double markup. This paper estimates the size of double markups across many industries accounting for direct and indirect upstream markups. The double markups in many U.S. manufacturing industries are significant because of large upstream and downstream markups and increasing returns to scale.

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