Market power and systematic risk
- verfasst von
- Fabian Hollstein, Marcel Prokopczuk, Christoph Matthias Würsig
- Abstract
We examine the impact of product market competition on firms' systematic risk. Using a measure of total product market similarity, we document a strong negative relationship between market power and market betas. The effect more than triples in the most recent period of low competition. Anticompetitive mergers result in a significant reduction in market betas. Firms facing less competition seem to be partially insulated from systematic discount-rate shocks. Lower equity costs therefore imply that market power is partly self-perpetuating.
- Organisationseinheit(en)
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Institut für Finanzwirtschaft und Rohstoffmärkte
- Externe Organisation(en)
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Universität des Saarlandes
- Typ
- Artikel
- Journal
- Financial Management
- Band
- 53
- Seiten
- 233-266
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 34
- ISSN
- 0046-3892
- Publikationsdatum
- 07.05.2024
- Publikationsstatus
- Veröffentlicht
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Volkswirtschaftslehre und Ökonometrie, Bilanzierung, Finanzwesen
- Elektronische Version(en)
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https://doi.org/10.1111/fima.12438 (Zugang:
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