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Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity

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Title
Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity
Abstract
I examine the effects of oligopsony power on allocative efficiency and income redistribution by studying a size regulation in the Chinese tobacco industry that led to ownership consolidation. I show that separate identification of input price markdowns, goods price markups, and productivity is challenging when a subset of inputs is nonsubstitutable, which often holds for materials, and construct and estimate a model to overcome this challenge. I find that the regulation increased input price markdowns by 37 percent on average. This increase in oligopsony power led to a decline in allocative efficiency and redistributed income away from rural households.
Publication
American Economic Review
Volume
113
Issue
9
Pages
2382-2410
Date
2023-09
Citation
Rubens, M. (2023). Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity. American Economic Review, 113, 2382–2410.
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