v. 2. pt. 3. Empirical methods and results. Inter-industry studies of structure and performance / Richard Schmalensee -- Empirical studies of industries with market power / Timothy F. Bresnahan -- Empirical studies of innovation and market structure / Wesley M. Cohen and Richard C. Levin -- An...

v. 1. pt. 1. Determinants of firm and market organization. Technological determinants of firm and industry structure / John C. Panzar -- The theory of the firm / Bengt R. Holmstrom and Jean Tirole -- Transaction cost economics / Oliver E. Williamson -- Vertical integration : determinants and...

This paper is a study of the effect of Brazil's staggered Internet rollout between 2000 and 2014 on municipality employment and wages. The study uses a new, annual data set on Internet availability from the Brazil school census, with the assumption that the share of schools that have Internet...

The Staggers Rail Act of 1980 made a substantial break from an almost century-old policy of pervasively regulating the prices for freight rail services provided in the United States. In particular, rather than regulators establishing prices, Staggers permits shippers and railroads to voluntarily...

In FTC v. Actavis, Inc. the Supreme Court asked whether a patent settlement agreement involving a so-called “reverse payment” from a patent holder to an alleged infringer of a pharmaceutical patent “can sometimes unreasonably diminish competition in violation of the antitrust laws.”...

In September 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision that recognized and applied important economic principles concerning the antitrust analysis of single-firm conduct in two-sided markets. The Second Circuit reversed a February 2015 decision of the U.S. District...

Christie and Schultz (Camp;S) and Christie, Harris and Schultz (CHamp;S) suggest that Nasdaq dealers might tacitly collude to maintain wide bid-ask spreads. Each of the steps by which they reach their conclusions is wrong or misleading. (i) The inference of collusion that widens Nasdaq spreads,...