A Comment on: “ General Equilibrium Oligopoly and Ownership Structure” by José Azar and Xavier Vives

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2021 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 1055-1059
Author(s):  
Thomas Philippon

2021 ◽  
Vol Vol. 132 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-261
Author(s):  
Hend Ghazzai ◽  
Wided Hemissi ◽  
Rim Lahmandi-Ayed ◽  
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Econometrica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 1061-1063
Author(s):  
José Azar ◽  
Xavier Vives


Econometrica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 999-1048
Author(s):  
José Azar ◽  
Xavier Vives

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 affected by its ownership structure. We characterize the Cournot–Walras equilibrium of an economy where each firm maximizes a share‐weighted average of shareholder utilities—rendering the equilibrium independent of price normalization. In a one‐sector economy, if returns to scale are non‐increasing, then an increase in “effective” market concentration (which accounts for common ownership) leads to declines in employment, real wages, and the labor share. Yet when there are multiple sectors, due to an intersectoral pecuniary externality, an increase in common ownership could stimulate the economy when the elasticity of labor supply is high relative to the elasticity of substitution in product markets. We characterize for which ownership structures the monopolistically competitive limit or an oligopolistic one is attained as the number of sectors in the economy increases. When firms have heterogeneous constant returns to scale technologies, we find that an increase in common ownership leads to markets that are more concentrated.





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pp. 4-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
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The article considers the evolution of some branches of modern economic theory from the perspective of the authors biography as a scientist and his professional formation. It describes problems of econometrics, general equilibrium theory, uncertainty, economics of information, and growth. It is shown how different authors representing various fields came to similar conclusions simultaneously and independently, what were the problems, in response to which economists of the second half of last century developed their theories, and what were the contexts of such development.





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