Market Concentration, Transnational Corporate Networks, and Politically-Connected Firms

• In Event: Thickening Networks - Political Business Connections in the Global Economy

Brief Overview

This paper introduces a new dataset on the connections between politicians and business. The data are used to explain the rise of inequality via tight business-politics linkages.

Authors

• William Kindred Winecoff, Indiana University-Bloomington

• Sarah Bauerle Danzman, Indiana University-Bloomington