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This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a middleman mode where an intermediary holds inventories which...
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We evaluate the impact of the Washington State Attorney General's enforcement campaign against employee no-poaching clauses in franchising contracts, which unfolded from 2018 through early 2020. Implementing a staggered difference-in-differences research design using Burning Glass Technologies...
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competition. For reasonable parameter values product market deregulation fosters growth substantially more in the flexible than in …
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limitations of the available data, and the potential implications of common ownership for competition in Australia. …
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The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market … economy instead of standard antitrust concerns. In technology areas where the breakup reduced concentration, patenting …
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In this paper we study how promoting product market competition by reducing mark-ups or by increasing productivity are …
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) Explicitly addressing monopsony in the draft guidelines is grounded in economic theory and empirical research. (2) Workers …
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, study various aspects of monopsony and failures of competition in labor markets. It also reports on the new developments in … public policies associated with widespread concerns about labor market competition and efforts to ameliorate competitive … labor market concentration to studies of explicit covenants suppressing labor market competition. New policies range from …
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changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …. Those with higher TFP have higher survival probabilities. However, increased competition does not induce incumbents to raise …
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Are excessively concentrated markets inequitable as well as inefficient? We explore this issue by analyzing the degree of market concentration in the industries where Australia's wealthiest made their fortunes. Compared with the economy at large, we find that top wealth holders have tended to...
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