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Efficiencies Brewed : Pricing and Consolidation in the U.S. Beer Industry
Ashenfelter, Orley C. - 2013
Merger efficiencies provide the primary justification for why mergers of competitors may benefit consumers. Surprisingly, there is little evidence that efficiencies can offset incentives to raise prices following mergers. We estimate the effects of increased concentration and efficiencies on...
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Estimating Discrete Games with Many Firms and Many Decisions : An Application to Merger and Product Variety
Fan, Ying; Yang, Chenyu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
method to study merger effects on firm entry and product variety in the retail craft beer market in California. We simulate … an acquisition of multiple craft breweries by a large brewery and find that the acquisition would induce firm entry and …
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Dynamic Oligopoly Pricing with Asymmetric Information : Implications for Horizontal Mergers
Sweeting, Andrew; Tao, Xuezhen; Yao, Xinlu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
are restricted to lie in narrow ranges. We calibrate our model using data from the beer industry, and we show that our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496143
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Estimating market power Evidence from the US Brewing Industry
De Loecker, Jan - 2016
While inferring markups from demand data is common practice, estimation relies on difficult-to-test assumptions, including a specific model of how firms compete. Alternatively, markups can be inferred from production data, again relying on a set of difficult-to-test assumptions, but a wholly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455723
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Vertical Arrangements, Market Structure, and Competition An Analysis of Restructured U.S. Electricity Markets
Bushnell, James B. - 2007
This paper examines vertical arrangements in electricity markets. Vertically integrated wholesalers, or those with long-term contracts, have less incentive to raise wholesale prices when retail prices are determined beforehand. For three restructured markets, we simulate prices that define...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465139
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Vertical Integration of Healthcare Providers Increases Self-Referrals and Can Reduce Downstream Competition : The Case of Hospital-Owned Skilled Nursing Facilities
Cutler, David M. - 2020
The landscape of the U.S. healthcare industry is changing dramatically as healthcare providers expand both within and across markets. While federal antitrust agencies have mounted several challenges to same-market combinations, they have not challenged any non-horizontal affiliations - including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482523
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The Riddle of the Great Pyramids
Morck, Randall - 2009
Large pyramidal family controlled business groups are the predominant form of business organization outside America, Britain, Germany, and Japan. Large pyramidal groups comprising dozens, even hundreds, or listed and unlisted firms place the governance of large swathes of many countries' big...
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Hospital Integration and Vertical Consolidation : An Analysis of Acquisitions in New York State
Huckman, Robert S. - 2005
While prior studies tend to view hospital integration through the lens of horizontal consolidation, I provide an analysis of its vertical aspects. I examine the effect of hospital acquisitions in New York State on the distribution of market share for major cardiac procedures across providers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467304
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Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency : Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power
Davis, Lucas W. - 2011
For the first four decades of its existence the U.S. nuclear power industry was run by regulated utilities, with most companies owning only one or two reactors. Beginning in the late 1990s electricity markets in many states were deregulated and almost half of the nation's 103 reactors were sold...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461317
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Millennials and the Take-Off of Craft Brands : Preference Formation in the U.S. Beer Industry
Bronnenberg, Bart J.; Dube, Jean-Pierre H.; Joo, Joonhwi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We conduct an empirical case study of the U.S. beer industry to analyze the disruptive effects of locally … generation of adult Millennial consumers. We document a generational share gap: Millennials buy more craft beer than earlier … Baby Boomers, with the remainder explained by intrinsic generational differences in preferences. We predict the beer market …
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