, firms are price-makers and wage-setters. Our setting combines monopolistic and monopsonistic competition, thus encapsulating …

Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with minimum data requirements the direct distributional effects of market … telecommunications and corn products. The results show that increasing competition from four to 12 firms in the mobile telecommunications …

policies such as subsidies to innovation investments explain a country's position in the eventual world income distribution …

Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood … ; decomposition ; Germany …

We analyze the distribution and taxation of top incomes in Germany during the 1990s on the basis of individual tax … findings are as follows: (i) incomes are highly concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (ii) the German economic … concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (iv) although effective tax rates are significantly lower than statutory ones …

illustrate our approach by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant, sizeable and robust …