Center on Pacific Economies Research Grant Recipient
Steven Weymouth, Ph.D. Candidate
Project Locations: Chile and Mexico
Project Description:
Does political competition spur economic competition? This project studies the effect of democratization on economic concentration using a large cross-national dataset of 1.3 million firms in 155 countries, and two detailed case studies in Chile and Mexico using microeconomic data. CPE funding will support the collection of firm-level data from Chile and Mexico, which will be used to identify how changes in political competition within countries affect market structure. Evidence of changes in industry concentration following periods of democratic reform will strongly support the inference that political competition contributes to economic competition.
