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Sergio Ocampo

Sergio Ocampo is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario, where he works since 2020 after graduating from the University of Minnesota and spending a term at the University of Oslo. His research on wealth taxes, self-employment, and retail concentration has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.
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How Has Industry Consolidation Changed the Way Americans Shop?

Dominic Smith
In new research, Dominic Smith and Sergio Ocampo show that retail concentration has increased in most markets across the United States, with the expansion of large retail chains driving the trend toward a more concentrated retail landscape. Their findings are based on new product-level census data for all U.S. retailers. They explain the implications of this increased concentration for the everyday shopping experience of clothing, electronics, groceries, and much more.

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