Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/228877 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 375
Publisher: 
University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Zurich
Abstract: 
This paper develops a framework to systematically study how changes in market conditions affect the equilibrium inequality between heterogeneous agents. By stating our setting as a "competition for market shares", we can derive inequality predictions for vastly different competition models. This approach allows us to identify a common structure, e.g., in monopolistic competition, perfect competition, or competition for prizes, that explains why these models deliver similar inequality predictions. We apply our results to problems from trade, competition theory, consumption inequality, political economics and marketing, and relate some of the predicted inequality patterns to empirical evidence.
Subjects: 
Inequality analysis
market shares
power functions
monopolistic competition
perfect competition competition for prizes
JEL: 
C65
D30
D41
E10
L11
M37
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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