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The use of traditional industry-level profitability indicators for assessing the state of competition is problematic for two reasons. First, short-term variation reflects business cycles more than it does the impact of competition policy. Second, rough industry-level indicators hide different...
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important implications for the distribution of income, the presence of optimizing behavior, and the existence of market power. …
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This article studies the use of different distribution channels as an instrument of price discrimination in credence …
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In markets for credence goods sellers are better informed than their customers about the quality that yields the highest surplus from trade. This paper studies second-degree price-discrimination in such markets. It shows that discrimination regards the amount of advice offered to customers and...
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Renewable resources provide society with resource rent and surpluses for resource users (the processing industry, consumers) and owners of production factors (capital and labor employed in resource harvesting). We show that resource users and factor owners may favor inefficiently high harvest...
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In this paper we analyse the effects of financialisation on income distribution, before and after the Great Financial … Crisis and the Great Recession. The focus is on functional income distribution and thus on the relationship between … financialisation and the wage share or the gross profit share. The analysis is based on a Kaleckian theory of income distribution …
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financialisation-distribution nexus is examined for the three countries. Third, macroeconomic demand and growth regimes are analysed …
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Many models show that redistribution is bad for growth. This paper argues that in a non-cooperative world optimizing, redistributing ('left-wing') governments mimic non-redistributing ('right-wing') policies for fear of capital loss if capital markets become highly integrated and the countries...
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This paper estimates rates of return across the gross wealth distribution in eight European countries. Like … distribution and add an explosive element to growth models. We show that differential rates of return matter empirically by merging …-shaped function across the distribution, where inequality in the lower half of the distribution is higher than in the upper half. If …
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The paper investigates how including the distribution of wealth changes the demand effects of redistributing functional … income. It develops a model with an endogenous wealth distribution and shows that the endogenous rise in wealth inequality …
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