Most retrospective merger studies resort to the treatment effect approach, comparing the price dynamics in a treatment … Parisian parking market is provided. -- merger retrospective analysis ; treatment effect models … thus that seemingly distant entities may be affected through indirect channels. An illustration based on a merger in the …

would offset the incentive to increase price created by a merger. The formula depends only on pre-merger information on … slopes -- and thus allow calibration of parameterized demand and cost curves -- from pre-merger data. While the Cournot model … the assumption of interchangeability, in particular greater consistency with pre-merger data and greater scope for …

of oligopoly concerns resulting from mergers. In this paper, we provide a critique of Bork's views on merger policy from … The Antitrust Paradox. Many of Bork's recommendations have been implemented over time and have improved merger analysis …. Bork's proposed horizontal merger policy, however, was too permissive. In particular, the empirical record shows that …

of oligopoly concerns resulting from mergers. In this paper, we provide a critique of Bork's views on merger policy from … The Antitrust Paradox. Many of Bork's recommendations have been implemented over time and have improved merger analysis …. Bork's proposed horizontal merger policy, however, was too permissive. In particular, the empirical record shows that …

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 …

operates within state boundaries: cross-market, within-state hospital mergers yield price increases of 7-9 percent for …

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. …