the fertilizer market that led to accelerated price increases for this category of inputs. The income and expenditure …

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. -- merger retrospective analysis ; treatment effect models …

belonging to both merging parties, as well as (one or more) \common insurers" with which price and network status is negotiated … of merger activity. We find that hospitals gaining system members in-state (but not in the same geographic market …) experience price increases of 7-10 percent relative to control hospitals, while hospitals gaining system members out …