Market Power of Large Firms: Regional Features and Differences

We analyze market power of large firms through application of indicators for tracking the quality and stability of leadership. Our calculations are made on the open source data published by Expert Journal (Russia) concerning the leading corporations in Russia, Kazakhstan, and a number of Russian regions. To identify leaders, we use such indicators as business sales, profit-earning capacities, level of capitalization, and turnover growth. We can state that the characteristics of leadership are regionally heterogeneous. We also present our estimates of the further development and redistribution of market power