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economic effects of these types of mergers on market competition, focusing on digital media content distribution. In doing so …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 …
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competition are all found to be important determinants of long-run firm values, firm turnover, and market structure. Estimates for …
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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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The United States federal government preempted anti-competitive state and municipal telegraph regulations when the 1866 Post Roads Act was enacted. The act granted a de facto national franchise to build and operate a telegraph system anywhere in the United States to any telegraph company...
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-exchange agreements using clearinghouses like Agri Stats, Inc. lessen competition and offend United States antitrust law, a more general …
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competition are all found to be important determinants of long-run firm values, firm turnover, and market structure. Estimates for …
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in competition triggered by LCC entry and airline mergers, we find that an increase in competition increases the …In this paper we study the impact of competition on the provision of quality in the US airline industry. Using changes … previous findings in the literature, our evidence suggests that an increase in competition unambiguously increases consumer …
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This paper examines the relative importance of horizontal market structure, auction design, and vertical arrangements in explaining electricity prices. We define vertical arrangements as either vertical integration or long term contracts whereby retail prices are determined prior to wholesale...
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For criminal violations of the Sherman Act, although guided by federal sentencing guidelines, U.S. Department of Justice has great latitude in recommending corporate cartel fines to the federal courts, and its recommendations are nearly always determinative. In this paper, we analyze the...
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Government enforcement against collusion, now viewed by the Supreme Court as the “supreme evil” in antitrust, has gone through various phases of enforcement in the United States. There have been periods in which cartels have been able to collude more or less effectively given various...
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