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The wealth effects of the abuse of dominance enforcement

Ocepek, France - 2026

The article investigates the welfare impacts of abuse of dominance enforcement proxied by the stock price evaluations. The European Commission reformed the competition policy at the turn of the new century; however, the reform efforts were more reserved and cautious regarding Article 102 TFEU...

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The price impacts of renewable power : a tale of two sources

Brown, David P.; Reguant, Mar - 2026

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The price impacts of renewable power : a tale of two sources

Brown, David P.; Reguant, Mar - 2026

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Decoding drug search under public funding : rates, directions, and social impacts in an agent-based model

Dosi, Giovanni; Palagi, Elisa; Roventini, Andrea; … - 2026

By extending the framework presented by Dosi et al. (2023b), we build an evolutionary agent-based model of the pharmaceutical sector featuring a government and a Public Research Lab investing in R&D and innovating across different therapeutic areas. After having empirically validated our...

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Market structure, efficiency, and the quest for banking performance : new insights from an evolving banking market

Khan, Naveed; Afridi, Muhammad Asim; Ṭāhir, Muḥammad; … - 2026

This study investigates the impact of market structure on the performance of banks in Pakistan. It explicitly tests two competing hypotheses: the Structure-Conduct-Performance paradigm and the Efficient Structure Hypothesis, providing insights into whether profitability stems from market...

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The price of knowledge diffusion : technology licensing and market power

Korpela, Ville; Mäkynen, Eero; Takalo, Tuomas - 2026

Business dynamism has been slowing globally over the last several decades. In a recent study, Akcigit and Ates (2023) examine the relative importance of different channels behind this development and highlight weakened knowledge diffusion from the technology frontier to followers as a dominant...

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The geography of market power : evidence from the Chinese steel industry

Brandt, Loren; Jiang, Feitao; Luo, Yao; Su, Yingjun - 2026

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Strategic sector coupling? : Market power in heat and power markets

Siddiqui, Afzal S.; Maier, Sebastian - 2026

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Gaming the giants: how startups shape innovation to spark acquisition wars

Bedre-Defolie, Özlem; Biglaiser, Gary; Jullien, Bruno - 2026

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Gaming the giants : how startups shape innovation to spark acquisition wars

Bedre-Defolie, Özlem; Biglaiser, Gary; Jullien, Bruno - 2026

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Testing for Market Power in Agricultural Land Markets : Evidence from Ukraine

Deininger, Klaus; Ali, Daniel Ayalew - 2026

Agricultural land markets are critical for structural transformation but may, as farm sizes increase, also be affected by operators exercising market power. To explore this little-studied issue, this paper uses administrative data for agricultural land lease transactions from 2021 to 2024 in...

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Did foreigners pay America's tariffs? : quantity discounts, scale economies and incomplete pass-through

Ganapati, Sharat; Hottman, Colin J. - 2026

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Cost pass-through, price competition, and market power in brick-and-mortar pharmacies : evidence from Germany

Gail, Maximilian M. - 2026

In the German pharmacy market, strictly regulated prescription (Rx) drug prices coexist with free pricing for over-the-counter (OTC) drugs. This paper investigates the extent of market power in the non-prescription segment (OTC drugs and non-pharmaceuticals) and explores the role of Rx drugs in...

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Market power is power

Gratton, Gabriele; Lee, Barton E. - 2026

We argue that in market democracies firms can wield political power through a mechanism that does not rely on lobbying, campaign contributions, or persuasion. When voters cannot commit to future regulation, firms can use irreversible technological investments to reshape ex-post political...

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Market power is power

Gratton, Gabriele; Lee, Barton E. - 2026

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Does banking consolidation harm households?

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

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The power to discriminate

Dodini, Samuel; Willén, Alexander - 2026

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The power to discriminate

Dodini, Samuel; Willén, Alexander - 2025

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The power to discriminate

Dodini, Samuel; Willén, Alexander - 2025

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Sanctioning an exporter wielding market power without excessively raising the price buyers pay

Salant, Stephen W.; Cardoso, Diego S.; Daubanes, Julien - 2026

To reduce Russia's ability to fund its war in Ukraine, Western governments imposed a price ceiling on Russian seaborne oil exports. Policy-makers sought a ceiling level to lower Russia's oil profits without raising excessively the world price buyers pay for oil. Previous analyses have explored...

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Demand response control structure in imperfectly competitive power markets : independent or integrated?

Ancel, Julien - 2026

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Product market competition, labor mobility, and firm-sponsored training : new implications of market power

Ghosh, Arghya; Morita, Hodaka; Sato, Susumu - 2026

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Keynesianism and U.S. economic transformation : institutional challenges, policy limits, and global interdependence

Hayakawa, Hiroaki - 2026

This paper offers a historically grounded reinterpretation of Keynesianism within the context of U.S. economic development and global capitalist transformation. It traces the evolution of Keynes's core insights into a form of structural Keynesianism, shaped by institutionalism, post-Keynesian...

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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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From shares to machines : how common ownership drives automation

Emmens, Joseph; Hutschenreiter, Dennis C.; Manfredonia, … - 2026

We study whether common ownership affects the direction of technological change. We develop a task-based model with multiple local labor markets in which commonly owned firms internalize wage externalities from portfolio rivals when hiring from the same labor pool, increasing incentives to...

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From shares to machines : how common ownership drives automation

Emmens, Joseph; Hutschenreiter, Dennis; Manfredonia, Stefano - 2026 - This version: June 3, 2026

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From shares to machines : how common ownership drives automation

Emmens, Joseph; Hutschenreiter, Dennis; Manfredonia, Stefano - 2024

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Deposit funding, market power and monetary policy transmission

Auer, Simone; Conti, Antonio M.; Farroni, Paolo - 2026

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Materials prices, market power, and the rise in processed food inflation in emerging markets: evidence from Colombia

Flórez A., Jorge Hernán; Gáfaro, Margarita; … - 2026

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Optimal mixed taxation and market power in a dynamic economy

Aronsson, Thomas; Wendner, Ronald - 2026

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Data externalities, market power, and the optimal design of central bank digital currencies

Cheng, Yuteng; Chiu, Jonathan; Davoodalhosseini, Seyed … - 2026 - Last updated: June 18, 2026

We study the optimal design of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in an economy where private payment service providers (PSPs) collect and monetize transaction data and may have market power. Payments data create social benefits through law enforcement and monitoring but also impose privacy...

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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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Productivity, markups, and reallocation : evidence from French manufacturing firms

De Monte, Enrico - 2026

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Environmental regulation, market power, and socially responsible firms

Borsenberger, Claire; Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, … - 2026 - March 2026, revised May 2026

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Environmental regulation, market power, and socially responsible firms

Borsenberger, Claire; Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, … - 2026

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Bank monopsony power and stock market spillovers on deposit markets

Huang, Teng - 2026

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Upstream market power and failing firm acquisitions

Hashimoto, Ryuichi; Mizuno, Tomomichi - 2026

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Employer market power : models and methods

Bassier, Ihsaan; Manning, Alan - 2026

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General equilibrium, welfare and policy analysis when firms have market power

Moreno, Diego; Petrakēs, Emmanuēl - 2026

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Bayesian DEA framework for market power and efficiency analysis in banking operations

Fukuyama, Hirofumi; Tsionas, Efthymios G.; Tan, Yong - 2026

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Beyond horizontal harm : digital ecosystems, innovation, and the future of European merger control

Breide, Lukas; Budzinski, Oliver; Mendelsohn, Juliane; … - 2026

This paper develops four proposals to modernize merger control in the European Union and beyond. First, merger control should be reinforced and reinvigorated to prevent the further rising of market power and to stop the ongoing decline of competition intensity. Second, the analysis highlights...

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Has the introduction of the Rental Price Brake in Germany increased Immobilienscout's market power?

Wein, Thomas - 2026

Increasing regulation of the housing market through Rental Price Brake (RPB) could increase the profitability of Immoscout, Germany's largest real estate portal, as RPBs could be accompanied by increased scarcity in the housing market, making the real estate portal more important; the portal's...

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The impact of market power and financial flexibility on corporate investment policy

Fliers, Philip - 2025

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The impact of market power and financial flexibility on corporate investment policy

Fliers, Philip - 2024

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Bank consolidation and uniform pricing

Granja, João; Paixão, Nuno - 2026

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Beyond the 4Ps : how marketing can influence strategy in a changing landscape

Germann, Frank - 2025

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Market Power in Mortgage Pricing : the Role of Referral Lending

Zhang, Dayin; Han, Lu; Barwick, Panle Jia; Kroah, Jonathan - 2026

Despite intense competition among mortgage lenders, borrowers face substantial price dispersion. We argue that realtor-loan officer referral networks are a key source of lender market power: by steering homebuyers toward a small set of loan officers, these networks restrict effective borrower...

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Market power in mortgage pricing : the role of referral lending

Zhang, Dayin; Han, Lu; Barwick, Panle Jia; Kroah, Jonathan - 2026

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How government-guided funds cultivate and expand patient capital in China's GEM market?

Geng, Xiaoyuan; Liu, Jiaxin; Dai, Mengqi - 2026

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Dynamics of market power in monetary economies

Kala, Jyotsana; Lebeau, Lucie; Wang, Lu - 2025

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Capacity expansion, subsidies and market power : a real options approach

Lovarelli, Alessio - 2026

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The 2-rainbow domination number of Cartesian bundles over cycles

Brezovnik, Simon; Rupnik Poklukar, Darja; Žerovnik, Janez - 2025

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Proposed Mergers Where Efficiencies Are Needed Most Might Be the Least Likely to Deliver Them

Metcalfe, Robert D.; Sollaci, Alexandre B.; Syverson, Chad - 2026

Mergers are commonly evaluated by weighing their expected market power effects against any efficiency gains they create. The larger the market power effect of a proposed merger, the larger must be any efficiencies for it to raise social welfare. We show selection into merger proposal distorts...

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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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Customer Overlap and Diversion Ratios

Einav, Liran; Guido, Mariana D.; Klenow, Peter J. - 2026

We define the concept of customer overlap of product j with product k as the share of j's customers who buy k. We then argue that, in appropriate contexts, customer overlaps are an excellent proxy for diversion ratios, a useful and popular way to summarize competition between sellers of...

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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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Repurposing Power Markets

2025

The electricity industry is undergoing a transformative evolution driven by three overarching trends: decentralization, digitalization, and decarbonization (3Ds). To ensure access to clean, affordable, and reliable energy for all by 2030 - UN sustainable development goal 7 (SDG7) - countries...

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The Cost of Intermediary Market Power for Distressed Borrowers

Dou, Winston Wei; Wang, Wei; Wang, Wenyu - 2026

Distressed firms need urgent financing to preserve operations and avoid inefficient liquidation, but they borrow in concentrated markets shaped by existing-creditor blocking power and a small group of specialized lenders. We show that these borrowers pay exceptionally high loan spreads even...

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The Cost of Intermediary Market Power for Distressed Borrowers

Dou, Winston Wei; Wang, Wei; Wang, Wenyu - 2022

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Banking on Inattention

Lu, Xu; Wu, Lingxuan - 2026

We demonstrate that depositor inattention gives rise to banks' deposit market power. Using transaction-level data on millions of U.S. depositors, we document that unscheduled income remains in low-rate accounts much longer than scheduled income, and interpret this reaction-time gap as...

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Non-user utility and market power : the case of smartphones

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Jiménez Durán, Rafael; Leonard, Aaron - 2025

Firms can increase the demand for their products and consolidate their market power not only by increasing user utility but also by decreasing non-user utility. In this paper, we examine this mechanism by considering the case of smartphones. In particular, Apple has faced criticism for allegedly...

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Non-User Utility and Market Power : The Case of Smartphones

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Jiménez Durán, Rafael; Leonard, Aaron - 2025

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