一般均衡下的寡头垄断与所有权结构

General Equilibrium Oligopoly and Ownership Structure

Econometrica · 2021
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中文导读

构建了一个企业在大规模且拥有产品与劳动力市场势力的可处理一般均衡框架,分析所有权结构如何影响企业决策,并探讨市场集中度变化对就业、工资和劳动份额的影响。

Abstract

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.

一般均衡寡头垄断所有权结构市场集中度