The declining worker power hypothesis: An explanation for the recent evolution of the American economy

A Stansbury, LH Summers - 2020 - nber.org
Rising profitability and market valuations of US businesses, sluggish wage growth and a
declining labor share of income, and reduced unemployment and inflation, have defined the …

Ultimate ownership and bank competition

J Azar, S Raina, M Schmalz - Financial Management, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We document substantial time‐series and cross‐sectional variation in branch‐level deposit
account interest rates, maintenance fees, and fee thresholds, and examine whether variation …

General equilibrium oligopoly and ownership structure

J Azar, X Vives - Econometrica, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We develop a tractable general equilibrium framework in which firms are large and have
market power with respect to both products and labor, and in which a firm's decisions are …

Concentration, market power and dynamism in the euro area

MC Cavalleri, A Eliet, P McAdam, F Petroulakis… - 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
We examine the degree of market power in the big four countries of the euro area using
macro and firm-micro data. We focus on three main indicators of market power in and across …

[HTML][HTML] Common ownership, market power, and innovation

X Vives - International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2020 - Elsevier
I examine the effects of overlapping ownership on market power when there are external
effects across firms. This is done in an oligopoly model with cost-reducing innovation with …

Revisiting the anticompetitive effects of common ownership

J Azar, X Vives - 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
We use data from the US airline industry to test the hypothesis, consistent with the general
equilibrium oligopoly model of Azar and Vives (forthcoming), that inter-industry common …

Product market structure and monetary policy: evidence from the euro area

A Ferrando, P McAdam, F Petroulakis, X Vives - 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Monetary policy aims at affecting corporate borrowing by influencing the marginal costs of
firms, but its potency can be conditioned by the degree of market competition. We first …

Monetary Policy, Market Power, and SMEs

A Ferrando, P McAdam, F Petroulakis… - AEA Papers and …, 2023 - aeaweb.org
Monetary policy aims to affect corporate borrowing by influencing the marginal costs of firms,
but its potency can be conditioned by the degree of market competition. We first identify …

Diversification, common ownership, and strategic incentives

A Banal-Estanol, J Seldeslachts, X Vives - AEA Papers and …, 2020 - aeaweb.org
We argue that within-industry investor diversification is directly related to common ownership
incentives (profit loads on rival firms by the manager of a firm) in product markets. Because …

Labor market power and between-firm wage (in) equality

M Mertens - International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2023 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT I study how labor market power affects firm wage differences using German
manufacturing sector firm-level data (1995-2016). In past decades, labor market power …