Concentration, Investment, and Growth

Concentration, Investment, and Growth

 

Recent Economic Policy Symposium at Jackson Hole Wyoming (August 23-25) where economists, central bankers, policy makers gather together annually discussed issues of Rising Market Concentration, Declining Business Investments, and Declining Economic Dynamism.

2018 Economic Policy Symposium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

https://www.kansascityfed.org/publications/research/escp/symposiums/escp-2018

 

 

Richmond Federal Reserve Bank published an article on Market Concentration.

Are Markets Too Concentrated?

Industries are increasingly concentrated in the hands of fewer firms. But is that a bad thing?

 

Click to access cover_story.pdf

Click to access full_issue.pdf

 

 

Washington Post published a story on market concentration in US companies.

Are U.S. Companies Too Big and Powerful? The Fed Wants to Know

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/are-us-companies-too-big-and-powerful-the-fed-wants-to-know/2018/08/23/35891356-a6b0-11e8-ad6f-080770dcddc2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9cb83dadde89

 

 

 

OECD held a joint conference with the World Bank and the IMF on Product Market Concentration, Inclusive Growth, and Regulation at OECD HQ, Paris, France. 11 June, 2018.

http://www.oecd.org/eco/reform/joint-imf-wb-oecd-conf-structural-reform-2018/

 

 

Please see my related posts

Rising Market Concentration and Declining Business Investments in the USA – Update June 2018

Shareholder Capitalism: Rising Market Concentration, Slower Productivity Growth, Rising Inequality, Rising Profits, and Rising Equities Markets