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A treatment effect method for merger analysis with an application to parking prices in Paris
Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - 2010
Most retrospective merger studies resort to the treatment effect approach, comparing the price dynamics in a treatment group and in a control group. We propose a systematic method to construct the groups, which applies to any industry with spatial competition. The method is consistent with the...
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Double marginalization and vertical integration
Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent; Vergé, Thibaud - 2021
Asymmetric information in procurement entails double marginalization. The phenomenon is most severe when the buyer has all the bargaining power at the production stage, while it vanishes when the buyer and suppliers' weights are balanced. Vertical integration eliminates double marginalization...
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Firm innovation under import competition from low-wage countries
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Liu, Runjuan; Tang, Rotao - 2017
-wage countries, especially China. Does this competition hurt or help innovation by firms? This paper studies the effect of the surge … in imports from China on innovation in the US manufacturing sector. We combine patent, firm and trade data during 1990 … positive effect on firm innovation, as measured by citation-weighted patent applications. This positive effect persists when we …
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