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This paper sets up a microeconomic theory of labor unions. It discusses their formation and goals, their hierarchical structure, and the nature of rent distribution. The theory provides predictions for the probability that an industry or occupation will be unionized, the proportion of that...
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The basic competitive model with freely available technology is suited for static industries but misleading as applied to major innovative economies for which development of new technologies equals in magnitude around 10% of gross domestic investment. We distinguish free generic technology from...
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Will an industry with no antitrust policy converge to monopoly, competition, or somewhere in between? We analyze this …. We find that perfect competition and monopoly are always steady states of this model, and that there may be other steady …
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for commercial plastics. Commentators have suggested that the incumbents may have preserved the monopoly outcome by gaming … post-remedy years. Such inelastic demand is inconsistent with monopoly, suggesting the remedy may have been effective …
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The macroeconomic data of the last thirty years has overturned at least two of Kaldor's famous stylized growth facts: constant interest rates, and a constant labor share. At the same time, the research of Piketty and others has introduced several new and surprising facts: an increase in the...
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Since bank deposits and currency are substitutes and banks have monopoly power, higher nominal interest rates lead to …
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Without the rule of law, traders who incur trading costs can be held up by counter-parties who are stronger in anarchic bargaining. The favourable terms which the latter extract can overcrowd that side of the market, dissipating the benefits. We establish plausible necessary and sufficient...
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Recent literature notes that when quality is produced with fixed costs, a high quality firm can undercut its rival's prices and may find it profitable to invest more in quality as market size grows large. As a result, a market can remain concentrated even as it grows large. When quality is...
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known. Using the example of Pennsylvania's state liquor retailing monopoly, we use information on store location choices … configuration. An alternative to a state monopoly would be the common practice of regulated private entry. While such regimes can …
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Previous work has claimed that monopoly power facilitates the provision of credit, since monopolists are better able to … creditworthiness, monopoly power may reduce credit provision because hold up problems ex post will deter borrowers from investing in … establishing creditworthiness. Empirically, we examine the relationship between monopoly power and credit provision, using data on …
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