Allen, Michael O.; Scheve, Kenneth; Stasavage, David - 2023
This paper investigates the relationship between democracy and antitrust policy. Strong antitrust policies advance the … interests of consumers. We examine the empirical relationship between democracy, inequality, and antitrust policies in a broad … panel of countries from 1951 to 2010. Using a variety of empirical strategies, we find that democracy is predictive of …