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A rapidly growing literature has shown that market concentration among domestic firms has increased in the United … measures of concentration, once adjusted for sales by foreign exporters, actually stayed constant between 1992 and 2012. We … reconcile these findings by linking part of the increase in domestic concentration to import competition. Although concentration …
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We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the … typical industry, while it is stable by industry and country of origin. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive … concentration among national producers. …
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We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the … typical industry, while it is stable by industry and origin country. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive … firms within country are diverging. Finally, higher concentration from an origin country is associated with a fall in prices …
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This article derives a European Herfindahl-Hirschman concentration index from 15 micro-aggregated country datasets. In … the last decade, European concentration rose due to a reallocation of economic activity towards large and concentrated … markups stayed constant. Using country-industry variation, we show that changes in concentration are positively associated …
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This article derives a European Herfindahl-Hirschman concentration index from 15 micro-aggregated country datasets. In … the last decade, European concentration rose due to a reallocation of economic activity towards large and concentrated … markups stayed constant. Using country-industry variation, we show that changes in concentration are positively associated …
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monopoly now features so prominently on the political and economic agenda. Mounting evidence shows that corporate concentration … stifles innovation and investment, resulting in lower-quality goods and services and less economic dynamism. Concentration is … people come to recognize the role of federal and state-level taxation in understanding corporate concentration in the US. Yet …
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The present paper studies labour migration in the enlarged EU. Adopting the Krugman’s framework of the New Economic Geography, we are able to study both the determinants of labour migration, such as market potential, wages, cost of living on one hand, and labour migration on the other hand...
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The paper studies the impact of migration policy liberalisation on international labour migration in the enlarged EU in a structural NEG approach. The liberalisation of migration policy would induce additional 1.80 - 2.98 percent of the total EU workforce to change their country of location,...
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A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization based approach to large data sets for European and U.S. banks, we offer new empirical evidence that efficiency plays a key role in the transmission from competition to soundness....
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