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Local and national concentration trends in jobs and sales : the role of structural fransformation
Autor, David H.; Patterson, Christina; Van Reenen, John - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249214
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Local and National Concentration Trends in Jobs and Sales : The Role of Structural Transformation
Autor, David H.; Patterson, Christina; Van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
National industrial concentration in the U.S. has risen sharply since the early 1980s, but there remains dispute over whether local geographic concentration has followed a similar trend. Using near population data from the Economic Censuses, we confirm and extend existing evidence on national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250148
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The Anatomy of Concentration : New Evidence From a Unified Framework
Ahern, Kenneth R.; Kong, Lei; Yan, Xinyan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Concentration is a single summary statistic driven by two opposing forces: the number of firms in a market and the evenness of their market shares. This paper introduces a generalized measure of concentration that allows researchers to vary the relative importance of each force. Using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468257
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University Patenting : Estimating the Diminishing Breadth of Knowledge Diffusion and Consumption
Rosell, Carlos - 2006
The rate of university patenting increased dramatically during the 1980s. To what extent did the knowledge flow patterns associated with public sector inventions change as university administrators and faculty seemingly became more commercially oriented? Using a Herfindahl-type measure of patent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466021
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Are Chinese Markets for Manufactured Products More Competitive than in the US? : A Comparison of China -US Industrial Concentration Ratios
Wang, Jun - 2014
We present estimates of 4 and 8 firm concentration ratios by industry and in weighted aggregate form for the manufacturing sector for Chinese enterprises for 2002 and 2007. These are then compared to available estimates for the same years and industrial classification for the US. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458765
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Rising Bank Concentration
Corbae, Dean - 2020
-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994 removed many of the restrictions on opening bank branches across state … lines. We interpret the Riegle-Neal act as lowering the cost of expanding a bank's funding base. In this paper, we build an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479361
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Land and Credit : A Study of the Political Economy of Banking in the United States in the Early 20th Century
Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2009
Economists have argued that a high concentration of land holdings in a country can create powerful interest groups that retard the creation of economic institutions, and thus hold back economic development. Could these arguments apply beyond underdeveloped countries with backward political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463566
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Consolidation of Banks in Japan : Causes and Consequences
Hosono, Kaoru - 2007
We investigate the motives and consequences of the consolidation of banks in Japan during the period of fiscal year 1990-2004 using a comprehensive dataset. Our analysis suggests that the government's too-big-to-fail policy played an important role in the mergers and acquisitions (M&As), though...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465251
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Monopoly-Creating Bank Consolidation? The Merger of Fleet and BankBoston
Calomiris, Charles W. - 2005
one large, universal bank remained. We explore the extent to which that merger resulted in monopoly rents for the combined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467332
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Bank Concentration and Crises
Beck, Thorsten - 2003
Motivated by public policy debates about bank consolidation and conflicting theoretical predictions about the … relationship between the market structure of the banking industry and bank fragility, this paper studies the impact of bank … concentration, bank regulations, and national institutions on the likelihood of suffering a systemic banking crisis. Using data on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468775