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Eeckhout, Jan; Veldkamp, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Might firms' use of data create market power? To explore this hypothesis, we craft a model in which economies of scale in data induce a data-rich firm to invest in producing at a lower marginal cost and larger scale. However, the model uncovers much richer interactions between data, welfare and...

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Techies and Firm Level Productivity

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by using French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation,...

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Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?

Dafny, Leemore - 2008

Although the vast majority of Americans have private health insurance, researchers focus almost exclusively on public provision. Data on the private insurance sector is extremely difficult to obtain because health insurance contracts are complex, renegotiated annually, and not subject to...

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Trade Policy and Market Power : The Case of the US Steel Industry

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2007

A primary function of trade policy is to restrict imports to benefit the targeted domestic sector. However, a well-established theoretical literature highlights that the form of trade policy (e.g., quotas versus tariffs) can have a significant impact on how much trade policy affects firms'...

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Some Economic Aspects of Antitrust Analysis in Dynamically Competitive Industries

Evans, David S. - 2001

Competition in many important industries centers on investment in intellectual property. Firms engage in dynamic …, Schumpeterian competition for the market, through sequential winner-take-all races to produce drastic innovations, rather than … through static price/output competition in the market. Sound antitrust economic analysis of such industries requires explicit …

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Market Power and Price Discrimination in the U.S. Market for Higher Education

Epple, Dennis - 2017

The main purpose of this paper is to estimate an equilibrium model of private and public school competition that can …

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Kill Zone

Kamepalli, Sai Krishna - 2020

We study why high-priced acquisitions of entrants by an incumbent do not necessarily stimulate more innovation and entry in an industry (like that of digital platforms) where customers face switching costs and enjoy network externalities. The prospect of an acquisition by the incumbent platform...

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Misallocation in Firm Production : A Nonparametric Analysis Using Procurement Lotteries

Carrillo, Paul E.; Donaldson, Dave; Pomeranz, Dina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

How costly is the misallocation of production that we might expect to result from distortions such as market power, incomplete contracts, taxes, regulations, or corruption? This paper develops new tools for the study of misallocation that place minimal assumptions on firms' underlying...

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Concentration, Market Power, and Misallocation : The Role of Endogenous Customer Acquisition

Afrouzi, Hassan; Drenik, Andres; Kim, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper explores how different margins of market share are related to markups. Using merged microdata on producers and consumers, we document that a firm's market share is mainly related to its number of customers, while its price-cost markup is associated only with its average sales per...

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Technology Adoption and Career Concerns : Evidence from the Adoption of Digital Technology in Motion Pictures

Goehring, Grant - 2024

This paper studies the impact of career concerns on technological change by analyzing the adoption of digital cinematography in the US motion picture industry. This setting allows us to collect rich data on the adoption of this new technology at the project-level (i.e., movie) as well as on the...

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