This paper evaluates the impact on prices of the 2013 merger between Anheuser-Busch InBev(ABI) and Grupo Modelo and the associated court-required divestiture of Grupo Modelo’s US business to Constellation. We use difference-in-differences and event study regressions to capture firms' price...

This appendix serves as a supplement to “Cost Pass-through in Commercial Aviation: Theory and Evidence.” In this appendix we present the computational details of the theoretical model as well as the model predictions described in the text of the above-mentioned paper. Using a model of air...

Nonprofit (NP) organizations provide key social service goods but rely on donations, obtained in a competitive environment, for that provision. Yet most research focuses on competition in the output markets without considering inter- and intra-sector competition in the markets for donations....

This study examines whether nonprofits (NP) engage in ‘excessive’ fundraising (EF) relative to what may be socially optimal. The investigation requires using a structural empirical model to approximate socially optimal fundraising levels. The analysis reveals evidence of EF of up to 31% in a...