The paper provides new evidence on proxy indicators of market power for major European countries. The data shows moderately increasing average industry concentration over the last two decades, a considerably increasing proportion of high concentration industries, and an overall tendency towards...

Climate change policies are often met with resistance due to fears over the loss ofcompetitiveness and employment. This paper studies the effect of energy prices, whichare a proxy for a carbon tax, on the labor share of income and industry concentration.Using aggregated administrative data from...