This paper provides an economic analysis of recent vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. industry for audiovisual … media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine … economic effects of these types of mergers on market competition, focusing on digital media content distribution. In doing so …

Economic analysis of competition regulation is most developed in the domain of horizontal mergers, and modern agency … standard models, and more broadly to diverge with how economic analysis of proposed mergers should be and often is conducted …

This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition … policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each … central features of antitrust policy. Our objective is to foster the improvement of legal regimes and also to identify topics …