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The "Matthew effect" and market concentration : search complementarities and monopsony power
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Mandelman, Federico S.; … - 2021
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms that face search complementarities in the formation of vendor contracts. Search complementarities amplify small differences in productivity among firms. Market concentration fosters monopsony power in the labor...
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Spatial concentration of manufacturing firms in China
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Zhao, Zhao - 2014 - This version, June 2014
firms in China. Using a unique and detailed dataset on manufacturing firms in China, we are able to follow the changes in … location patterns of firms between 2002 and 2008. Our analysis shows that firms in China are more localized than in the UK or … state-owned firms. Our findings are consistent with the notion that China is increasingly liberalizing its economy, enabling …
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Is the rent too high? : land ownership and monopoly power
Watson, C. Luke; Ziv, Oren - 2021
We investigate the sources, scope, and implications of landowner market power. We show how zoning regulations generate spillovers through increased markups and derive conditions under which restricting landownership concentration reduces rents. Using newbuilding-level data from New York City, we...
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Inequality and market concentration, when shareholding is more skewed than consumption
Gans, Joshua; Leigh, Andrew; Schmalz, Martin C.; … - 2018
Economic theory suggests that monopoly prices hurt consumers but benefit shareholders. But in a world where individuals or households can be both consumers and shareholders, the impact of market power on inequality depends in part on the relative distribution of consumption and corporate equity...
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Oligopoly, macroeconomic performance, and competition policy
Azar, José; Vives, Xavier - 2018
We develop a macroeconomic framework in which firms are large and have market power with respect to both products and labor. Each firm maximizes a share-weighted average of shareholder utilities, which makes the equilibrium independent of price normalization. In a one-sector economy, if returns...
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Inequality and market concentration : new evidence from Australia
Hotchin, Lachlan; Leigh, Andrew - 2024
Are excessively concentrated markets inequitable as well as inefficient? We explore this issue by analyzing the degree of market concentration in the industries where Australia's wealthiest made their fortunes. Compared with the economy at large, we find that top wealth holders have tended to...
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Product differentiation and oligopoly : a network approach
Pellegrino, Bruno - 2023
This paper develops a theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium. Firms compete in a network of product market rivalries that emerges endogenously out of the characteristics of the products and services they supply. My model embeds a novel, highly tractable and scalable demand system...
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Market concentration in Europe : evidence from antitrust markets
Affeldt, Pauline Luise; Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus; … - 2021
An increasing body of empirical evidence is documenting trends toward rising concentration, profits, and markups in many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market shares are poorly measured at the national industry level...
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Growing by the masses revisiting the link between firm size and market power
Afrouzi, Hassan; Drenik, Andres; Kim, Ryan - 2020
How are a firm's size and market power related to one another? Combining micro-data about producers and consumers, we document that while firms mainly grow by selling to more customers, their markups are only associated with their average sales per customer. To study the macroeconomic...
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Concentrating on the fall of the labor share
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - 2017
The recent fall of labor's share of GDP in numerous countries is well-documented, but its causes are poorly understood. We sketch a "superstar firm" model where industries are increasingly characterized by "winner take most" competition, leading a small number of highly profitable (and low labor...
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