
A common measure of industry concentration, defined as the percent of sales in the industry accounted for by the largest n firms. n is some small number such as 4 or 6, and the result is called the 'n-firm concentration ratio.'
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(from the article `separation and purification`) ...of component 1 and 28.5 percent of component 2 remain in the original liquid phase (A), because K1 = 0.5 = 33.3/66.7 and K2 = 2.5 = 71.5/28.5; so ...
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A way of measuring the concentration of market share held by particular suppliers in a market. 'It is the percentage of total market sales accounted for by a given number of leading firms.' Thus a four-firm concentration ratio is the total market share of the four firms with the largest market shares. (Sometimes this particular statistic ...
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