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While there is widespread evidence of increasing markups in the United States and other developed economies in the last …--measured as price-cost markups--in the six largest Latin American economies from a worldwide perspective. First, average markups … deciles. Third, in contrast to the prediction of most theories about endogenously variable markups, I document a nonlinear …
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Wages for the vast majority of workers have stagnated since the 1980s while productivity has grown. We investigate two coexisting explanations based on rising market power: 1. Monopsony, where dominant firms exploit the limited mobility of their own workers to pay lower wages; and 2. Monopoly,...
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income, which depends on the joint distribution (across firms) of market power, the labor share, and firms size. Markups …
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International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the channel behind, the technology transfer from foreign companies to local firms. Focusing on imports, they can positively contribute to local firm's productivity performance by...
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This paper uses firm-level data on manufacturing trade from 40 developing countries to explore how the five largest exporters in a country contribute to export growth and diversification. The origins of these firms are also studied. The data show that the top five exporters account for on...
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We propose a theory of how market power affects wage inequality. We ask how goods and labor market power jointly affect …
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