larger price increases than mergerrelated exits. Within the merger category, our analysis reveals significant price increases … on all affected routes immediately after the exit events. In the medium and long-run, however, realized merger …

marktverschließenden Wirkungen der dualistischen Krankenhausfinanzierung, gehen auf die besondere Problematik von Krankenhäusern in der …The increasing number of hospital mergers over the last few years has lead to some debate over the form and degree of … paper analyses regionalism and hospital competition, highlighting several aspects: We shed light on the market …

Foreign direct investment - the major driving force of globalization - is increasingly dominated by merger and …

Most retrospective merger studies resort to the treatment effect approach, comparing the price dynamics in a treatment … thus that seemingly distant entities may be affected through indirect channels. An illustration based on a merger in the …

We investigate the competitive effects of the merger between Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines (2009) in the … domestic U.S. airline industry. Applying fixed effects regression models we find that the transaction led to short term price … increases of about 11 percent on overlapping routes and about 10 percent on routes which experienced a merger-induced switch of …

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca … based on the selective hospital admission of slaves. …

a steep increase in prices after price controls were lifted in 2006. The boycott led to an immediate decline in prices … low prices, would have been 30% higher but for the boycott, (ii) own price elasticities and especially cross price … other products, of new price controls, and of possibly class action law suits. …

's ability to rationalize production is even more limited if costs are private information to firms. Merger in such markets … generate an efficiency gain associated with the pooling of information. Not only may costs be reduced, the price level and … price variability may also decline and consumers may thus gain. …