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Evidence for the Effects of Mergers on Market Power and Efficiency
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2016
are robust to a range of approaches to address the endogeneity of firms' merger decisions …
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Volatility and Pass-Through
Berger, David - 2013
What drives countercyclical volatility? A large literature has documented that many economic variables are more disperse in recessions, but this could either occur because shocks get bigger or because firms respond more to shocks which are the same size. Existing evidence that the dispersion of...
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Small and Large Price Changes and the Propagation of Monetary Shocks
Alvarez, Fernando - 2014
We document the presence of both small and large price changes in individual price records from the CPI in France and the US. After correcting for measurement error and cross-section heterogeneity, the size-distribution of price changes has a positive excess kurtosis. We propose an analytical...
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On What States Do Prices Depend? Answers from Ecuador
Benedict, Craig - 2016
In this paper, we argue that differences in the cost structure across sectors play an important role in the decision of firms to adjust their prices. We develop a menu-cost model of pricing in which retail firms intermediate trade between producers and consumers. An important facet of our...
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Cyclical Markups : Theories and Evidence
Rotemberg, Julio J.; Woodford, Michael - 2021
theory, markups are chosen to ensure that no one deviates from an (implicitly) collusive understanding. Increases in rates of …
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Firm-Specific Capital, Nominal Rigidities and the Business Cycle
Altig, David; Christiano, Lawrence J.; Lindé, Jesper; … - 2021
Macroeconomic and microeconomic data paint conflicting pictures of price behavior. Macroeconomic data suggest that inflation is inertial. Microeconomic data indicate that firms change prices frequently. We formulate and estimate a model which resolves this apparent micro - macro conflict. Our...
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International Shocks and Domestic Prices : How Large are Strategic Complementarities?
Amiti, Mary - 2016
How strong are strategic complementarities in price setting across firms? In this paper, we provide a direct empirical estimate of firm price responses to changes in prices of their competitors. We develop a general framework and an empirical identification strategy to estimate the elasticities...
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Product Switching and the Business Cycle
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2016
This paper explores role of product adding and dropping within manufacturing firms over the business cycle. While a substantial body of work has explored the importance of the extensive margins of firm entry and exit in employment and output flows, only recently has research begun to examine the...
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The Price Effects of a Large Merger of Manufacturers : A Case Study of Maytag-Whirlpool
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2011
appliance markets most affected by the merger to markets where concentration changed much less or not at all. We estimate price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119784
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An Experimental Approach to Merger Evaluation
Conlon, Christopher T. - 2013
The 2010 Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Horizontal Merger Guidelines lay out a new standard for … pressure. Using both nonparametric analyses and structural demand estimation, we find significant diversion to remaining … cases in which the GUPPI would imply increased regulatory scrutiny of a proposed merger …
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