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Applied Microeconomics | Industrial Organization: Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity

Michael Rubens, UCLA
Friday, April 16, 2021
10:00-11:00 AM
Virtual
Abstract:
I study how ownership consolidation affects market power on both factor and goods markets, and productive efficiency. I develop a model to separately identify markups, markdowns and productivity using production and cost data. I use it to examine the effects of a large-scale consolidation policy in the Chinese cigarette manufacturing industry. Exploiting size thresholds in the policy, I find that it increased leaf price markdowns by a third, but did not increase markups or productivity. As a result, income inequality between tobacco farmers and manufacturing workers increased by twice as much as it would have without the consolidation.

* To join the seminar, please contact at econ.events@umich.edu
Building: Off Campus Location
Location: Virtual
Event Type: Workshop / Seminar
Tags: Economics, seminar
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Department of Economics, Applied Microeconomics/Industrial Organization