Search Results - subject_exact:"Market concentration"

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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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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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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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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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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The labour share and corporate financialization : evidence from publicly listed firms

Guschanski, Alexander; Onaran, Özlem - 2025

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International economic relations and American support for antitrust policy

Brutger, Ryan; Pond, Amy - 2025

Antitrust policy aims to reduce market concentration and increase competition among firms. Contemporary antitrust is sensitive to both domestic and international considerations. Internationally, the market is dominated by the largest firms, raising questions about the competitiveness of domestic...

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Market concentration and aggregate productivity : the role of demand

Pearce, Jeremy; Wu, Liangjie - 2025

This paper studies the relationship between market concentration and aggregate productivity when firmlevel demand emerges from past marketing investments. Granular firms may invest in demand both to complement their productivity and to amplify market power-this second force can create persistent...

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Geospatial heterogeneity in inflation : a market concentration story

Kim, Seula; Navarrete, Michael A. - 2025

We study how inflation varies across regions with different income levels and the role of retailer market structure. Using NielsenIQ Retail Scanner and Business Dynamics Statistics data, we document new stylized facts of spatial heterogeneity in food inflation and retailer market structure. From...

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Small fish in a big (local) pond : EU directives, market concentration, and sme success in public procurement

Drake, Samielle - 2025

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Price dislocations : insights from trade repository data

Menkveld, Albert J.; Saru, Ion Lucas; Yu, Shihao - 2025

This paper identifies price dislocation events in EuroSTOXX 50 futures, i.e., periods marked by high absolute returns. Combining public limit order book data with confidential trade repository data collected under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), we analyze market conditions...

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Analyzing the retail gasoline market in Germany : impact of spatial competition and market concentration on prices

Fiedler, Nicolas - 2025

Given the changing landscape of fuel retailing, this study explores the impact of spatial competition and market concentration on diesel prices in Germany. The question of how population density and gas station density, i.e. the equilibrium pattern of locations of firms, are related is examined....

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Analyzing the retail gasoline market in Germany: Impact of spatial competition and market concentration on prices

Fiedler, Nicolas - 2025

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Regulating vendor market concentration : challenges in digital government for health information sharing

Cho, Na-Eun - 2025

Policymakers face a dilemma in determining the optimal approach to regulating highly concentrated markets, especially in the context of digital government initiatives in healthcare. The current study investigates whether vendor market concentration facilitates or impedes efficiency in health...

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Regulating vendor market concentration: Challenges in digital government for health information sharing

Cho, Na-Eun - 2025

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Real earnings management among industries : does market competition matter?

Comporek, Michał - 2025

This paper investigates real earnings management (REM) practices in public non-financial companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) from 2014 to 2023, focusing on sectoral differences and the influence of market competition. REM, defined as deviations from normal business operations...

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Brand reallocation and market concentration

Pearce, Jeremy; Wu, Liangjie - 2024

We study the interaction of customer capital and productivity through brand reallocation across firms. We develop a firm dynamics model with brands as transferable customer capital, heterogeneous firm productivity, and variable markups. We study the matching process between transferable brand...

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Pricing, market power, and friction in a finite market: the role of capacities

Shavshin, Ruslan; Sandomirskaia, Marina - 2024

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Liberalisation, concentration and diversification : business groups in India, 2000-2020

Commander, Simon; Estrin, Saul; Thomas, Naveen; … - 2024

We analyse changes in market structure in India between 2000 and 2020 using a rich dataset at high levels of disaggregation. We examine the extent to which business groups - notably family-owned groups - have maintained dominant market positions in the Indian economy. We focus on two key...

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Profit margins and cost pass-through in Türkiye

Yüncüler, H. Burcu Gürcihan; Sarıkaya, Çağrı - 2024

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Competition between banks in the Estonian lending market

Kask, Jana; Kosenko, Timo; Raudsaar, Taavi - 2024

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Perfect competition, market power, and contestability

Budzinski, Oliver; Stöhr, Annika - 2024

The model of perfect competition is one of the most famous, most important, and most misunderstood concepts in economics. Rather than aiming to be a full-blown model of real-world competitive markets, the perfect competition model isolates the decentralized coordination mechanism inherent in all...

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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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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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Intraday prediction of operating-rate deviations from the policy rate : evidence from Peru

Franco, Diego; Ruiz, Delia; Cuba, Walter - 2026

This paper develops an intraday early-warning framework to predict deviations of the volumeweighted overnight interbank rate from the BCRP policy rate after the close of the Central Bank's second intervention window. We study both upward deviations, associated with liquidity-scarcity episodes,...

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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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The impact of market concentration and economies of scale on production networks: a new nonlinear input–output framework

Betancourt-Gómez, Michel Eduardo - 2026

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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 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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