market shares and substantial shareholdings, we calculate the impact of common ownership on effective market concentration … retailing, insurance and iron ore mining. Across the Australian economy, common ownership increases effective market …

Understanding the economic and social effects of the recent global trends of rising market concentration and market … Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with minimum data requirements the direct distributional effects of market … concentration through the price channel. Using this simple yet novel tool, this paper illustrates the likely distributional effects …

Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have … limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across … Herfindahl-Hirschman index (on a 0-100 scale), a measure of market concentration, explains an increase by 1 percent in the total …

of labor market competition. Using H-1B, H-2A, and H-2B program data, we calculate the concentration of employers in … from a market with an HHI of zero to a market comprised of two employers lowers H-1B worker wages approximately 10 percent …

the role of unions in shaping labor market wage inequality. …

This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health …

approaching the technological frontier, provided that labour market regulation is sufficiently tight. In the absence of employment … reinforced labour regulation. -- Ownership concentration ; labour market regulation ; growth ; developed countries …

perfect competition, the global fields of the dysfunctional market system have mushroomed in what we call Warrant Economics … for the Free-Market Aristocracy. Warrant Economics unfolds in two symbiotic tenets that constitute the subtle architecture …