I empirically examine the impact of the 1948 Paramount antitrust case on ticket prices using a unique data set collected from Variety magazine issues between 1945 and 1955. With weekly movie theater information on prices, revenues and theater ownership for an unbalanced panel of 393 theaters...

In economic literature, it is considered whether price squeezes constitute anticompetitive conduct requiring antitrust investigation. In this paper, I contemplate the intent element in exclusionary conduct. I posit that price squeezes should be prohibited, and that this should constitute an...

The experimental literature on antitrust enforcement provides robust evidence that communication plays an important role for the formation and stability of cartels. We extend these studies through a design that distinguishes between innocuous communication and communication about a cartel,...