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

method to study merger effects on firm entry and product variety in the retail craft beer market in California. We simulate … an acquisition of multiple craft breweries by a large brewery and find that the acquisition would induce firm entry and … product entry by non-merging firms. However, these changes are insufficient to offset the negative welfare effects resulting …

We introduce a model of oligopoly dynamic pricing where firms with limited capacity face a sales deadline. We establish …