models of market power and bargaining has been sparse, principally because the necessary data on individual transactions are …

of private industry and for non-durable manufacturing industries display a wide range of monopoly power …

This paper presents new evidence on the power sharing layout of national political elites in a panel of African … monolithically controlling power, we show that African ruling coalitions are large and that political power is allocated …

. Succinctly, countries receive a commercial return on their soft power …

political power can lead to multiple equilibria in the determination of public education spending. The main predictions of the …

is causal: a longer period in power increases the chance that a person may start (or continue) a political dynasty …. Therefore, dynastic political power is self-perpetuating in that a positive exogenous shock to a person's political power has … persistent effects through posterior dynastic attainment. In politics, power begets power …