Is common ownership in fintech companies an empirically significant phenomenon? What are its impact on competition and innovation in fintech markets and its implications for competition law enforcement? This chapter studies these questions providing evidence and insights on the extent of common...

Computational antitrust promises not only to help antitrust agencies preside over increasingly complex and dynamic markets, but also to provide companies with the tools to assess and enforce compliance with antitrust laws. If research in the space has been primarily dedicated to supporting...

Where do competition, antitrust and private equity intersect? Once antitrust’s favored child compared to strategic buyers, private equity seems to have fallen from competition enforcers’ grace. Interestingly, this is part of a broader trend: financial investors in general, from BlackRock to...

We examine merging firms' additions and removals of products for a sample of 66 mergers across a wide variety of consumer packaged goods markets. We find that mergers lead to a net reduction in the number of products offered by merging firms. Merging firms tend to both drop and add products at...

Despite the increased interest in corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) management, which reflects social values within the business environment, discussions on ESG-related policies are limited in that they are overly focused on ESG reporting standardization.K-ESG should be...

Recent research says 20 percent of Korean manufacturers are stalled-growth small and medium enterprises (SMEs), or companies that have been business for at least 20 years but have under 50 employees, with market factors causing 65 percent of such stagnation and the businesses themselves 35...

The proportion of added value in Korean manufacturing has remained stable without major changes since the 1990s, and the same was true for the nation’s service sector in the 2010s. But the structural change index (SCI), which measures the vitality or dynamism of industry as a whole, shows that...

We present a complete classification of six-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) industries into tradable and non-tradable. Those industries that have establishments located in close proximity to a large fraction of the population are classified as non-tradable. The...

Objective: The objective of this article is to identify strategies that can help small firms alleviate the negative impact of the COVID-19 crisis. We test six strategies (namely, entrepreneurial, market penetration, market development, product development, diversification, and cooperation). In...