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Three years ago, the Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission revised their Horizontal Merger Guidelines to … frequently made, as for instance in the recently proposed merger between Heinz and Beech-Nut in the market for baby food. While …
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This POLICY BULLETIN examines the potential impact of the proposed Cingular/AT&T Wireless merger on both (a) the …. After performing both an event study and merger simulation of the proposed merger, this POLICY BULLETIN finds that wireless … merger as wireless prices rise. Economics further indicates that to the extent there is intermodal competition, the cross …
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This paper empirically investigates market behavior and firms' lobbying in a unified structural setup. In a sequential game, where firms lobby for regulation before they compete in the product market, we derive a testable measure of lobbying coordination. Applying the setting to the early U.S....
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For the ongoing and upcoming auctioning of 5G spectrum an important question is, what drives network quality in mobile markets? When comparing the provided mobile network quality between various EU countries considerable differences between these markets become apparent, which cannot be solely...
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roaming surcharges, because of commitments made to obtain merger approvals from the European Commission. The originally random …
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illustrated by AT&T's recent merger with Time-Warner. At the same time, the pay-TV industry is rife with “most-favored nation … it. This creates a strong motivation for integration, but it also raises a question as to whether a merger is the only …
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We assess how the advent of smartphones affected consumer switching costs in the mobile communications market, using data from two surveys conducted in South Korea. A nested logit random utility model is employed to explain consumers' choice over service type and carrier, and to estimate...
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We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly unequal country, South Africa. Using six waves of a consumer survey of over 134,000 individuals between 2009-2014, we estimate a discrete-choice model allowing for...
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The deregulation of the telecommunications industry has resulted in a variety of industry structures which have been created in hopes of increasing competition. One example is the licensing of cellular telephone services in the United States where the FCC created duopolies in which two firms...
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