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Competition in many important industries centers on investment in intellectual property. Firms engage in dynamic …, Schumpeterian competition for the market, through sequential winner-take-all races to produce drastic innovations, rather than … through static price/output competition in the market. Sound antitrust economic analysis of such industries requires explicit …
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data set on 243 U.S. radio broadcast markets in 1993 and 1997, we find that concentration reduces entry and increases … are more likely than unrelated stations - and more likely than jointly owned stations in different markets - to broadcast …
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In theory, free entry can lead to social inefficiency. When new products are substitutes for existing products, the business stolen from incumbents places a wedge between private and social benefits of entry. The business stealing effect can be offset if entry reduces prices or increases...
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Intercollegiate amateur athletics in the US largely bars student-athletes from sharing in any of the profits generated by their participation, which creates substantial economic rents for universities. These rents are primarily generated by men's football and men's basketball programs. We...
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pitch type in Major League Baseball and whether to run or pass in the National Football League. We observe more than three … million pitches in baseball and 125,000 play choices for football. We find systematic deviations from minimax play in both … errors could be worth as many as two additional victories a year to a Major League Baseball franchise, and more than a half …
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This paper analyzes the dynamics of prices in two online secondary markets for Major League Baseball tickets …
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The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in repeated interactions in a high-pressure setting with referees making the type of split-second decisions that might allow implicit racial biases to manifest themselves. Moreover, the...
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performance later. In this paper, we exploit high-frequency data on decision-making by Major League Baseball umpires to examine …
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Market definition is essential to merger analysis. Because no standard approach to market definition exists, opposing parties in antitrust cases often disagree about the extent of the market. These differences have been particularly relevant in the hospital industry, where the courts have denied...
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Using a general-equilibrium simulation model featuring nominal rigidities and monopolistic competition in product and … labor markets, this paper estimates the macroeconomic benefits and international spillovers of an increase in competition …, greater competition produces large effects on macroeconomic performance, as measured by standard indicators. In particular, we …
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