This book combines practical guidance and theoretical background for analysts using empirical techniques in competition and antitrust investigations. Peter Davis and Eliana Garcés show how to integrate empirical methods, economic theory, and broad evidence about industry in order to provide...

This book combines practical guidance and theoretical background for analysts using empirical techniques in competition and antitrust investigations. Peter Davis and Eliana Garcés show how to integrate empirical methods, economic theory, and broad evidence about industry in order to provide...

This paper assesses the extent to which regulatory intervention targeting interchange fees has been consistent with the economic theory of two-sided markets and examines the available evidence on the impact of these regulations. The last two decades have seen a drive to regulate the interchange...

This paper argues that the technology and economic determinants of value creation in platform businesses need to be better incorporated in the analysis of the conduct of digital platforms. Platforms operate in an environment of extreme interconnectivity, exhibit many externalities and economies...

Little is known about the long-term effects of participation in Head Start. This paper draws on unique non-experimental data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to provide new evidence on the effects of participation in Head Start on schooling attainment, earnings, and criminal behavior....