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There is wide variation in the sizes of manufacturing plants, even within the most narrowly defined industry classifications used by statistical agencies. Standard theories attribute all such size differences to productivity differences. This paper develops an alternative theory in which...
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This paper studies how market competition influences the algorithmic design choices of firms in the context of … to maximize estimated profit. We show that competition may induce firms to strategically choose simpler algorithms which …
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We present a mechanism based on managerial incentives through which common ownership affects product market outcomes. Firm-level variation in common ownership causes variation in managerial incentives and productivity across firms, which leads to intra-industry and intra-firm cross-market...
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trends, markup trends, and the effects of mergers does not actually show a widespread decline in competition. Nor does it … observed changes in many industries are likely to reflect competition in action. We highlight research that points to targeted … interventions that can enable antitrust enforcement policy to better promote and protect competition. Throughout the paper, we …
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literature to introduce an empirical framework for analyzing network competition among airlines. Airlines make market entry … decisions and choose flight frequencies in the first stage, followed by price competition to attract passengers in the second …
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We ask (1) why the United States adopted the car more quickly than other countries before 1929, and (2) why in the United States the car changed from a luxury to a mass market good between 1909 and 1919. We argue that the answer is in part the success of the Model T in the United States and its...
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incentivize capacity investment, reduce reliance on spot markets, and enhance competition ameliorate the externality …
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conditions under which such mergers arise are broad, regardless of whether we consider quantity competition among homogeneous … products or price competition among multi-product firms facing multinomial logit demand. Calibrated models based on commonly …
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We document the effects of a comprehensive set of US retail mergers. On average, prices increase by 1.5% and quantities decrease by 2.3%, with significant heterogeneity in outcomes across mergers. Price changes correlate with the screens codified in the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. Through a...
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This paper presents a new method for estimating discrete games based on bounds of conditional choice probabilities. The method does not require solving the game and is scalable to models with many firms and many discrete decisions. We apply the method to study merger effects on firm entry and...
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