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Item Profit-Concentration Relation Ship Evidence From Ethiopian Large And Medium Manufacturing Industries(A.A.U, 2009-06) Gebrekidan, Kahasse; Hasan, Syed (Dr)This study has investigated the role of market structure on the profitability of Ethiopian larger and medium scale manufacturing industries. The market structure is measured by the four firm concentration ratio, import intensity, export intensity and barriers to entry and the average price- cost margin were used as proxy for performance of the industry. OLS multiple regression has been used for the period of 200516 in order to test the relation ship between the market structure variables and the profitability of the industries. The empirical investigation of this paper shows, the four finn concentrations, ban'iers to entry and export intensity affect the profit of the industries positively while import intensity has down effect on the profit of the industries.