that sectoral shocks are at the root of merger waves. Deregulation and globalization are identified as the shocks …

illustrate our argument by examining two important cases - Sweden's recent export success and the financialization of non …

industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched worker-firm data from Sweden, we find strong … may be significant gains from globalization that have not been identified in the past - globalization may improve the … the industry level or measures of domestic anti-competitive regulations and product market competition. In addition, we …

in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …

This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the … nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a …

market. Using detailed matched employer-employee data, we analyze how firm takeovers and product market competition are … ownership change, in particular when product market competition is weak. Further, increased competition reduces the gender wage …