President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control

President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control
Author: President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 718
Release: 1984
Genre: Administrative agencies
ISBN:

The Grace Commission in which 161 corporate, academic, and labor leaders participated was set up to survey the Federal Government's operations from a private sector viewpoint and to identify opportunities for cost savings and improved management efficiencies. With private sector management tenets in mind, PPSS reports contain 2,478 specific recommendations, covering 784 issues, whose implementation could result in net savings of $424.4 billion over three years and prevent the accumulation of $10.5 trillion of additional deficits over the 17 years to year 2000. The Report provides a timely look at Federal Government spending and its relationship to budget deficits.

Rising Corporate Market Power

Rising Corporate Market Power
Author: Ufuk Akcigit
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2021-03-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1513512080

Corporate market power has risen in recent decades, and new estimates in this note suggest that the likely wave of small and medium-sized enterprise bankruptcies from the ongoing pandemic will further strengthen market concentration. Whether and how policymakers should address this issue is hotly debated. This note provides new evidence on the policy relevance of rising market power and highlights possible implications for the design of competition policy frameworks and macroeconomic policies.