governments that are prepared to bar competition in exchange for political rent. Our results show that the retail-import price …

In this paper we analyse how labour market institutions and technology affect wage determination through rent sharing …

outcomes. The natural explanation is that Dutch dentists extract a monopoly rent, which we attribute to the limited supply of … dentists in the Netherlands. We discuss policies to curtail this rent. …

The long-run evolution of rent sharing is empirically studied. Based upon a comprehensive and harmonized panel of the … industry-level analysis for the US and EU. The decline in rent sharing is coincident with the rise of product market power that … profits, they experienced a stronger fall in rent sharing after 2000. …

We analyse – theoretically and empirically – how private versus public ownership of firms affects the degree of rent … positive relationship between private ownership and rent sharing. Based on our theoretical analysis, this result cannot be … explained by private firms being more profit oriented than public ones. However, the result is consistent with privatisation …

Through panel estimates using OECD country-industry statistics, this paper aims to clarify the determinants of rent … creation and the mechanisms of rent sharing, and the role of market regulations in these processes. The empirical analysis is … carried out in two steps. The first explains the rent creation process. For each country-industry-year observation, the size …