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Using a maximum entropy technique, we estimate the market shares of each firm in an industry using the available government summary statistics such as the four-firm concentration ratio (C4) and the Herfindahl-Hirschmann Index (HHI).We show that our technique is very effective in estimating the distribution of market shares in 20 industries.
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Golan et al. (1996) studied this question.
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