ANTITRUST AND DEMOCRACY: PERSPECTIVES FROM EFFICIENCY AND EQUITY

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Title:	ANTITRUST AND DEMOCRACY: PERSPECTIVES FROM EFFICIENCY AND EQUITY
Authors:	Ma, TC (Ma, Tay-Cheng)
Contributors:	經濟系
Keywords:	CROSS-COUNTRY EVIDENCE ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT COMPETITION POLICY INCOME INEQUALITY GROWTH WELFARE DETERMINANTS ENDOWMENTS MONOPOLY TRADE
Date:	2016-06
Issue Date:	2017-04-13 14:15:03 (UTC+8)
Abstract:	This article estimates a simultaneous equations model to explore the linkages between antitrust and democracy in a cross-country dataset for 109 countries from 1996 to 2011. The model is specified to decompose the total effect of antitrust on democracy into two channels: one through efficiency and the other through equity. The model's purpose is to identify whether and how antitrust affects democracy through these two variables. The model's results suggest that equity (improving income distribution) rather than efficiency (promoting economic development) serves as the main channel through which antitrust influences democracy. However, even if improving income distribution by protecting consumers and small businesses is the channel through which antitrust safeguards political democracy, its effect is very small. Therefore, the goal of improving income distribution to promote democracy should fall into the realm of taxation and transfer payments rather than antitrust.
Relation:	JOURNAL OF COMPETITION LAW & ECONOMICS 卷: 12 期: 2 頁碼: 233-261
Appears in Collections:	[Department of Economics & Graduate Institute of Economics ] journal articles

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