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Despite the European Commission’s concrete steps to integrate the national car markets and reduce car price dispersion, significant car price differences exist. Moreover, international differences in taxation of sales and registration of motor vehicles do not give rise to considerable...
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The wide change of banking models over last few decades has led to an increasing share of fee and commission income of banks. In this paper we deal with determinants of banking fees in the European Union with special emphasis on market concentration based on EU-27 data from 2007 to 2012. For the...
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Based on a theoretical model featuring heterogeneous retailers that may source globally and operate as chains, we derive a number of hypotheses that link trade integration to retail firm performance and to the structure of retail markets. We empirically test these predictions using Danish...
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Guest workers on visas in the United States may be unable to quit bad employers due to barriers to mobility and a lack of labor market competition. Using H-1B, H-2A, and H-2B program data, we calculate the concentration of employers in geographically defined labor markets within occupations. We...
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In this paper, I address the simple question "What types of employees have been steadily paid more by what type of employers?" and I suggest that rising market concentration has a significant structural impact on the wage differentials between white and blue-collar workers. The innovative...
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