This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD … of market competition. This study shows that inflation decreases with greater market competitiveness even after … controlling for productivity effects. Indeed, when market competition and productivity effects are both accounted for, trade …

stress that competition and regulatory authorities should take seriously the potential trade-off between market power effects …

. We use this historical pattern as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of contemporary private competition …