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Labour market concentration and wage inequality : a cross-country descriptive analysis

Pignatti, Clemente; Ananian, Sévane - 2026

This paper examines the relationship between labour market concentration and wage inequality using global survey data for the period 2006-2022. The results show that higher labour market concentration is associated with higher wage inequality, especially in the top half of the wage distribution....

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Concentration, consolidation, and foreign ownership in US agribusiness

Bolotova, Yuliya; Chandio, Rabail; Crespi, John M. - 2026

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Angebotskonzentration bei mineralischen Rohstoffen und Zwischenprodukten - potenzielle Preis- und Lieferrisiken : DERA-Rohstoffliste 2025

Bastian, Dennis; Bookhagen, Britta; Fritz, Alexander; … - 2026 - Datenstand: August 2025

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The AI regime : technological trajectories, infrastructural control and industrial concentration

Moggi, Massimo - 2026

This paper analyzes the contemporary development of artificial intelligence (AI) as a concentrated technological regime characterized by scaling dynamics, cumulative learning processes, and infrastructural control. Departing from approaches that treat AI as an exogenous technological shock, the...

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A structural break analysis of Wine Spectator’s Top 100, 1988-2025

Gokcekus, Omer - 2026

Using Wine Spectator's Top 100 lists for 1988-2025, this note applies Bai-Perron structural break tests to regional and country shares and identifies three distinct periods: 1988-1997, 1998-2015, and 2016-2025. Real prices decline across phases, with the sharpest drop in the most recent period,...

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Unemployment insurance extensions, labor market concentration, and match quality

Wasser, David N. - 2026

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The fallacy of concentration

Kritzman, Mark; Turkington, David - 2026

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Does banking consolidation harm households?

Brunetti, Celso; Harris, Jeffery H.; Spyridopoulos, Ioannis - 2026

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The employment concentration channel of monetary policy

Ascari, Guido; Colciago, Andrea; Membretti, Marco - 2026

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The employment concentration channel of monetary policy

Ascari, Guido; Colciago, Andrea; Membretti, Marco - 2026

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Is it AI or data that drives firm market power?

Mihet, Roxana; Rishabh, Kumar; Gomes, Orlando - 2026

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The race between academia and industry for AI researchers

Miserocchi, Francesca; Noray, Savannah; Wu, Alice - 2026 - First draft: August 2025, this draft: March 29, 2026

The advances of artificial intelligence (AI) are built on the groundwork laid by researchers. We study the labor market competition between academia and industry for AI researchers and its consequences for public knowledge production. Using data on 150,000 computer science researchers, we...

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Cross-layer consolidation and defragmentation in OTN-over-EON networks

Rezagholizadeh, Ehsan; Amiri, Elahe; Kohlert, Scott; … - 2026

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New U.S. business establishments : surging or stalling?

Cao, Dan Vu; Hyatt, Henry R.; Mukoyama, Toshihiko; … - 2026

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New U.S. business establishments : surging or stalling?

Cao, Dan Vu; Hyatt, Henry R.; Mukoyama, Toshihiko; … - 2026

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Corporate concentration and labour conditions in Hungary's food industry : evidence on wages, bonuses, working time, and workers' rights : 1993-2022

Bashokoh, Mahdi Imani; Nigussie, Kinfemichael; Maina, … - 2026

This study examines the relationship between corporate concentration and labour market conditions in Hungary's food industry over the period 1993-2022. Using industry-level panel data for the four most highly concentrated subsectors, cereals, food processing, oils and fats, and sugar and...

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Structural inertia in regional industrial concentration : persistence and mobility across European regions, 2017-2023

Fernandez-Escobedo, Rudy - 2026

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The smart manufacturing revolution : how industrial robotics reshape supplier networks

Li, Weiping; Lian, Ziying; Liu, Min; Wu, Ang - 2026

Supplier diversification is a crucial corporate strategy for ensuring uninterrupted production and secure supply chains. This study investigates how industrial robots reshape corporate suppliers' allocation strategies. Using data from China's A-share listed firms during 2012-2022, we find that...

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Thin markets, big risks : uranium supply concentration in the age of AI and nuclear expansion

Mohammed, Kamel Si; Alofaysan, Hind; Makhmudov, Samariddin - 2026

Uranium markets play a critical role in the expansion of nuclear power but remain structurally vulnerable to volatility. This study quantifies the relationship between supply concentration, contracting structures, and uranium spot price dynamics over the period 2015 to 2024. Using global mine...

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Enemy of the (democratic) state : the relation between the concentration of economic power and democracy

Katic, Ivana V.; Mizruchi, Mark S. - 2026

Despite a rich literature on the determinants of democracy, the influence of one theoretically important factor has been neglected thus far. Unlike factors such as development, growth, and inequality, the concentration of economic power and its correlate, business unity, have not received...

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Pool-operator concentration after the 2021 china mining ban : full block-attribution evidence from the Bitcoin mining-pool layer, 2020-2022

Wright, Craig Steven - 2026

The May-September 2021 cryptocurrency-mining prohibition in the People's Republic of China removed an industry that had become heavily concentrated in Chinese jurisdictions over the years preceding the ban. Using the full population of 97,005 Bitcoin blocks mined between May 2020 and February...

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Dynamic of labour market concentration : trajectory of immigrants in Canada

Diallo, Yaya; Djolaud, Guy Arnold - 2026

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An empirical inquiry into cartel overcharges and cartel fines including an assessment of the EU's guidelines on cartel fines and damages

Haucap, Justus; Karaçuka, Mehmet; Inke, Hakan - 2026

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Will AI intensify or weaken market competition?

Firooz, Hamid; Leduc, Sylvain; Liu, Zheng - 2026

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Trade scope and concentration after 2020 : evidence from a small open economy

Logožar, Klavdij - 2026

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Labour market concentration since the British industrial revolution

Kushnarev, Kirill - 2026

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Defensive vertical merger waves

Piccolo, Salvatore; Padilla, Jorge; Shekhar, Shiva - 2026

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Bank financial performance and stability in the Western Balkans : do income diversification and market concentration matter?

Kosta, Ervi - 2026

This study examines the relationship between income diversification, market concentration, and bank performance using a panel of 73 commercial banks from six Western Balkan countries over the period 2011 to 2024. Bank and year fixed effects models are employed to estimate conditional...

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Bank lending in the Euro area : the role of bank-firm switching and market concentration

Di Filippo, Gabriele; Giordana, Gastón; Kaempff, Bob; … - 2026

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Trade fragmentation, international cartels, and welfare : how does domestic market structure matter?

Agnosteva, Delina E.; Syropoulos, Constantinos; Yotov, Yoto - 2026

We characterize collusive pricing in an international cartel spanning two host countries and pooling incentive constraints across markets, under general demand restricted only by a mild curvature condition that admits constant elasticity. Under domestic monopoly, fragmentation can weaken...

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Territorial and functional concentration and directed departmental structure of Colombian road freight flows : RNDC evidence for 2022-2025

Streithorst Garcia, Federico; Núñez Rodríguez, Jairo; … - 2026

Background: Administrative freight records can support repeated territorial analysis when their aggregation grain and measurement units are explicitly distinguished. This study analyzes Colombia's National Registry of Road Freight Dispatches (RNDC) from January 2022 to December 2025. Methods:...

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Trademarks and trade concentration : evidence from the Madrid System (1995-2022)

Tharwat, Ismaeel; Abou, Shahd El Leil - 2026

This study aims to identify whether increases in trademark activity reshape countries' trade structure, specifically whether they raise or lower concentration across products and markets, and determine through which side of the bilateral relationship (origin vs destination) these effects...

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Innovation, market concentration, and inequality with endogenous time preferences

Davis, Colin R.; Zhao, Laixun - 2025

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Customer concentration, firm R&D investment and moderation effects

Zhao, Shan; He, Xinming; Ma, Baichao; Zuo, Wenming - 2025

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Labor market concentration in Germany

Oberfichtner, Michael; Popp, Martin - 2025

Using register data, we document that the average German labor market, defined by hires in combinations of 3-digit occupations, requirement levels, and commuting zones, is highly concentrated ( HHI ̄ $\bar{\text{HHI}}$ =0.257). By EU antitrust thresholds, 56 percent of these labor markets...

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Labor market concentration in Germany

Oberfichtner, Michael; Popp, Martin - 2025

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Market power, industry concentration and trade liberalization : evidence from Costa Rica

Gómez-Trejos, Felipe; Solano, Daniela Córdoba; … - 2025

Research about trade liberalization's impact on markups has focused on manufacturing due to data availability considerations. How do these effects vary across sectors? Which industries become more and less competitive as trade barriers are eliminated? We leverage firm-level tax records from the...

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"A concentration of private power without equal in history" : economic concentration and the investigations of the Temporary National Economic Committee (1938-41)

VanLear, William; Hutchinson, Daniel - 2025

This manuscript presents a detailed summary and reassessment of the 1941 final report of the Temporary National Economic Committee (TNEC). We portion the manuscript into four major parts: background, major themes, assessment of the report, and additional analysis and reflection. In the first...

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The worth of connections : an assessment of the impact of interlocking directorates on resources allocation

Cristofoletti, Enrico; Gaffeo, Edoardo - 2025

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Competition and market power in the Latin American banking sector

Lluberas, Rodrigo - 2025

The functioning of the banking sector is key for economic growth. In this paper, we first gather banks' balance sheet monthly regulatory information in a consistent manner for seven Latin American countries. Second, we estimate lending markups and deposits markdowns in each country over time....

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How does banking concentration affect financial inclusion in the Southern African region?

Simatele, Munacinga; Bolarinwa, Segun Thompson - 2025

Financial inclusion is an important enabler of economic development and aligns with several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In most sub-Saharan African countries, financial inclusion efforts take place in the presence of concentrated and bank-dominated systems. This study...

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Inventor-base concentration and corporate cash holdings

Wang, Jin - 2025

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Market structure, vertical integration and farmers' welfare in Costa Rica coffee industry

Leone, Fabrizio; Macchiavello, Rocco; Miquel-Florensa, … - 2025

Widespread market imperfections in agricultural value chains raise the possibility that regulatory interventions may enhance efficiency and farmers' welfare. We develop a structural model of agricultural value chains and estimate it using rich data from Costa Rica's coffee sector to evaluate...

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On regional bank concentration and firm leverage : the case of Colombia

Cao-Alvira, José J.; Gómez González, José Eduardo - 2025

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Market concentration and firm markups : micro evidence from an Emerging Market with Inflationary Pressures

Çolak, Mehmet Selman; Kazdal, Abdullah; Seven, Ünal - 2025

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Industrial organization and "The Rise of Market Power"

Miller, Nathan H. - 2025

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Ownership changes and firm dynamics

Brüggemann, Bettina; Mahone, Zachary L.; Palmer, Thomas - 2025

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On the role of luck for the concentration of capital and Piketty's 'fundamental force of divergence'

Vilks, Arnis - 2025

We consider an overlapping generations version of a model suggested by Fargione, Lehmann and Polasky that allows us to show, by means of simulations, that randomness of the rate of return on capital, combined with inheritance of capital and consumption being a concave function of wealth may lead...

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Does supply chain concentration promote or inhibit corporate R&D investment?

Zhao, Shukuan; Fan, Xueyuan; Shao, Dong; Wang, Shuang - 2025

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The critical minerals curse

Arezki, Rabah; Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2025

Economic super-powers are racing to control critical minerals in developing economies fueling conflict, environmental damage and poverty. In this paper, we first explore what could well constitute a new “critical minerals curse”. We then highlight the dualism of institutions required for...

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Bank competition and investment costs across space

Bordeu, Olivia; González, Gustavo; Sorá, Marcos - 2025

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Double-edged sword effect of customer concentration on the adoption of industrial robots

Yang, Jie; Wang, Fayan; Zhou, Jingchi; Zhao, Libin - 2025

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Antitrust and corporate taxation

Lee, Jonghoon; Pond, Amy - 2025

Although citizens value competitive markets and support small businesses, we observe substantial variation in market concentration. Why do politicians abstain from taking action to reduce concentration? We propose an often overlooked political benefit to concentrated markets: When concentration...

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