media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine …This paper provides an economic analysis of recent vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. industry for audiovisual … economic effects of these types of mergers on market competition, focusing on digital media content distribution. In doing so …

vertical mergers. Using public data from the Comcast-Time Warner-Adelphia Merger Order of the Federal Communications Commission …

Economic analysis of competition regulation is most developed in the domain of horizontal mergers, and modern agency … guidelines reflect a substantial consensus on the appropriate template for merger assessment. Nevertheless, official protocols … standard models, and more broadly to diverge with how economic analysis of proposed mergers should be and often is conducted …

policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each …

, merger laws and enforcement practices, econometric methods for analyzing prospective horizontal mergers, and evidence … antitrust policy toward horizontal mergers, the area of antitrust that has seen some of the most dramatic improvements in both … concerning the ex post effects of actual horizontal mergers. …