gasoline market confirms that increases in concentration reduce product variety. Ignoring this product variety effect is likely …

We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the … typical industry, while it is stable by industry and origin country. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive … firms within country are diverging. Finally, higher concentration from an origin country is associated with a fall in prices …

concentration on relationship lending which cannot be easily accommodated by the investment and strategic theories of relationship …

This paper argues that tax avoidance by large corporations has contributed to the 25% increase in concentration among U … that the average industry concentration would have been 8.3% lower, which is around its early 2000 level …

We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the … typical industry, while it is stable by industry and origin country. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive … firms within country are diverging. Finally, higher concentration from an origin country is associated with a fall in prices …

This paper analyzes the impact of financial development on export concentration. I incorporate credit constraints into … production costs instead of investments suggests a negative impact of financial development on export concentration as smaller … support for the predictions of the investment model that higher financial development increases export concentration among top …