The problem with growing corporate concentration and power in the global food system

J Clapp - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
What are the potential consequences when a relatively small number of large firms come to
dominate markets within the global food system? This Perspective examines the …

The drivers of income inequality in rich countries

B Nolan, MG Richiardi… - Journal of Economic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Rising income inequality has recently come centre‐stage as a core societal concern for rich
countries. The diagnosis of the forces driving inequality upwards and their relative …

Global market power

J De Loecker, J Eeckhout - 2018 - nber.org
To date, little is known about the evolution of market power for the economies around the
world. We extract data from the financial statements of over 70,000 firms in 134 countries …

What happened to US business dynamism?

U Akcigit, ST Ates - Journal of Political Economy, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
We attempt to understand potential common forces behind rising market concentration and a
slowdown in business dynamism in the US economy, through a micro-founded general …

Ten facts on declining business dynamism and lessons from endogenous growth theory

U Akcigit, ST Ates - American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2021 - aeaweb.org
In this paper, we review the literature on declining business dynamism and its implications in
the United States and propose a unifying theory to analyze the symptoms and the potential …

The determinants of AI innovation across European firms

I Igna, F Venturini - Research Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Using patent data for a panel sample of European companies between 1995 and 2016 we
explore whether the inventive success in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is related to earlier firms' …

Global declining competition?

FJ Díez, J Fan, C Villegas-Sánchez - Journal of International Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Using a new firm-level dataset on private and listed firms from advanced economies and
emerging markets, we document four stylized facts on market power in global markets. First …

The rise of financial investment and common ownership in global agrifood firms

J Clapp - Review of International Political Economy, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Financial investment in the food and agriculture sector has grown in recent decades,
including investment in equity-related funds that invest in or track the performance of a range …

[PDF][PDF] Links between growth, inequality, and poverty

V Cerra, R Lama, NV Loayza - International Monetary Fund, 2021 - library.oapen.org
The most commonly used measure of a country's economic activity and the overall well-
being is gross domestic product (GDP). 1 It gauges the magnitude of economic production …

[LLIBRE][B] The antitrust paradigm: restoring a competitive economy

JB Baker - 2019 - books.google.com
A new and urgently needed guide to making the American economy more competitive at a
time when tech giants have amassed vast market power. The US economy is growing less …