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of enforcement activity by European competition authorities in labor markets relative to the US. While enforcement action … competition enforcement in labor markets. The article identifies sectors and practices that may be scrutinized with priority by … European competition authorities and proposes a mix of enforcement, merger control and well-targeted policy and regulatory …
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rates. Using the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) we employ the proposed indicators to shed new light on changes in cost …
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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 nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
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. We sketch a "superstar firm" model where industries are increasingly characterized by "winner take most" competition …
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The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's share typically have relied on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In...
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Economic theory suggests that monopoly prices hurt consumers but benefit shareholders. But in a world where individuals …
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It is commonly argued that crises open up a window of opportunity to implement policies that otherwise would not have the necessary political backing. The argument goes that the political cost of deep reforms declines as crises unravel structural problems that need to be urgently rectified and...
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competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare maximizing domestic competition agency which may or may … of government. With an unbiased competition agency we find that the foreign takeover is more likely to occur the higher …
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in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …
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effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state …
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