Most retrospective merger studies resort to the treatment effect approach, comparing the price dynamics in a treatment … Parisian parking market is provided. -- merger retrospective analysis ; treatment effect models … thus that seemingly distant entities may be affected through indirect channels. An illustration based on a merger in the …

would offset the incentive to increase price created by a merger. The formula depends only on pre-merger information on … slopes -- and thus allow calibration of parameterized demand and cost curves -- from pre-merger data. While the Cournot model … the assumption of interchangeability, in particular greater consistency with pre-merger data and greater scope for …

of oligopoly concerns resulting from mergers. In this paper, we provide a critique of Bork's views on merger policy from … The Antitrust Paradox. Many of Bork's recommendations have been implemented over time and have improved merger analysis …. Bork's proposed horizontal merger policy, however, was too permissive. In particular, the empirical record shows that …

of oligopoly concerns resulting from mergers. In this paper, we provide a critique of Bork's views on merger policy from … The Antitrust Paradox. Many of Bork's recommendations have been implemented over time and have improved merger analysis …. Bork's proposed horizontal merger policy, however, was too permissive. In particular, the empirical record shows that …

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 … Parisian parking market is provided. …

We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in …-inefficiency of the price/quality offers. But, better price/quality combinations are signalled with lower prices in one type and with …

orientation. Individuals who are rivalistic in an allocation task indeed bid more aggressively in a laboratory oligopoly market …