The poverty effects of market concentration (English)

This paper contributes to the limited literature on the welfare impacts of market concentration by developing a simple model that shows how exogenous variations in market power affect poverty. Increased market power leads to economy-wide welfare losses, because it raises the prices of goods and services for all agents in an economy and thus reduces the relative incomes of households, particularly among the poor. Declines in poverty in this context...

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Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos;
Document Date
2015/12/01
Document Type
Working Paper (Numbered Series)
Report Number
125437
Volume No
1
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1
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World,
Region
Other,
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2018/04/20
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Disclosed
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The poverty effects of market concentration
Keywords
market concentration

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Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos.

The poverty effects of market concentration (English). Poverty and Equity Global Practice Working Paper Series|no. 051 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/523841524196945184

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