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Quantity Discounts from Risk Averse Sellers

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April 1, 2005

It is widely believed that larger customers in a market can secure lower prices than smaller customers. This paper presents conditions under which risk averse sellers, who can distinguish larger...

Quantity Discounts from Risk Averse Sellers (136.57 KB)

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A Variance Screen For Collusion

Date

March 1, 2005

In this paper, we examine price movements over time around the collapse of a bid-rigging conspiracy. While the mean decreased by sixteen percent, the standard deviation increased by over two hundred...

A Variance Screen For Collusion (759.2 KB)

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Transparency at the Federal Trade Commission: The Horizontal Merger Review Process: 1996-2003

Date

February 1, 2005

This paper empirically analyzes the Federal Trade Commission's merger enforcement decisions, to supplement the 2004 release of the Horizontal Merger Investigation Data. The study provides insights...

Transparency at the Federal Trade Commission: The Horizontal Merger Review Process: 1996-2003 (540.18 KB)

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FTC Staff Technical Report: Robustness of the Results in GAO's 2004 Report Concerning Price Effects of Mergers and Concentration Changes in the Petroleum Industry

Date

December 21, 2004

Text of the FTC Staff Technical Report (6.21 MB)

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Economics Research at the FTC: Information, Retrospectives, and Retailing

Date

December 1, 2004

Individual Federal Trade Commission (FTC) cases invariably raise broad questions about consumers, markets, and effective enforcement policy. Recent consumer protection cases raise questions about...

Economics Research at the FTC: Information, Retrospectives, and Retailing (307.83 KB)

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Pharmaceutical Development Phases: A Duration Analysis

Date

October 1, 2004

This paper estimates a duration model of late stage drug development in the pharmaceutical industry using publicly available data. The paper presents descriptive results on the estimated relationship...

Pharmaceutical Development Phases: A Duration Analysis (286.58 KB)

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FTC Issues Staff Report on The Petroleum Industry: Mergers, Structural Change, and Antitrust Enforcement

Date

August 13, 2004

The Federal Trade Commission today issued a report by staff of the Bureau of Economics entitled, “The Petroleum Industry: Mergers, Structural Change, and Antitrust Enforcement.” The report presents a...

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The Petroleum Industry: Mergers, Structural Change, And Antitrust Enforcement: A Report of the Staff of the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics

Date

August 1, 2004

This report updates two earlier FTC studies on mergers and structural change in the U.S. petroleum industry. Reviewing industry developments since the 1980s, this report finds, among other things...

Text of the Bureau of Economics Report (10.85 MB)

Statement of the Commission Appendix: Commission Testimony Concerning Market Forces, Anticompetitive Activity, and Gasoline Prices (July 15, 2004) (15.88 KB)

Statement of Commissioner Thompson (19.32 KB)

Statement of Commissioner Harbour (13.17 KB)

Earlier Reports Mergers In the U.S. Petroleum Industry 1971-1984: An Updated Comparative Analysis (May 1989) Mergers In the Petroleum Industry (September 1982) (2.66 MB)

Appendix: Commission Testimony Concerning Market Forces, Anticompetitive Activity, and Gasoline Prices (July 15, 2004) (681.25 KB)

Mergers In the U.S. Petroleum Industry 1971-1984: An Updated Comparative Analysis (May 1989) (2.66 MB)

Mergers In the Petroleum Industry (September 1982) (18.66 MB)

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Consumer Fraud in the United States : An FTC Survey

Date

August 1, 2004

This survey will help the FTC better serve fraud victims through law enforcement and education. The survey was designed, in part, to assist that agency in determining whether information in the FTC’s...

Consumer Fraud in the US: An FTC Survey - August 2004 (1.54 MB)

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Event

Roundtable on Methodologies for Assessing Accuracy and Completeness of Credit Reports

June 30, 2004 | 12:00AM

The FTC's Bureau of Economics hosted a roundtable with researchers, scholars, and practitioners in the credit reporting industry on methodologies for assessing the accuracy and completeness of credit...

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Can Ranking Hospitals on the Basis of Patients’ Travel Distances Improve Quality of Care?

Date

June 1, 2004

Conventional outcomes report cards-- public disclosure of information about the patient-background-adjusted health outcomes of individual hospitals and physicians – may help improve quality, but they...

Can Ranking Hospitals on the Basis of Patients’ Travel Distances Improve Quality of Care? (69.67 KB)

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Identifying Demand in EBay Auctions

Date

June 1, 2004

PUBLISHED AS: Estimating Demand from eBay Prices This paper presents assumptions and identification results for eBay type auctions. These results are for private value auctions covering three major...

Identifying Demand in EBay Auctions (219.95 KB)

Apr16

Event

Health Care Information and Competition conference

April 16, 2004 | 12:00AM

This quasi-academic conference, organized by Stanford health economist Dan Kessler, brought together academics and health policy makers to examine the production of and use of health care market...

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The Economic Effects of the Marathon - Ashland Joint Venture: The Importance of Industry Supply Shocks and Vertical Market Structure

Date

March 17, 2004

This study measures the retail and wholesale price effects in Louisville, Kentucky resulting from the Marathon/Ashland (MAP) joint venture. MAP was an early transaction in the recent era of petroleum...

The Economic Effects of the Marathon - Ashland Joint Venture: The Importance of Industry Supply Shocks and Vertical Market Structure (254.89 KB)

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The Union Pacific/Southern Pacific Rail Merger: A Retrospective on Merger Benefits

Date

March 11, 2004

This paper presents a retrospective case study of merger efficiencies in the context of the merger of the Union Pacific Railroad Co. and the Southern Pacific Transportation Co., as approved by the...

The Union Pacific/Southern Pacific Rail Merger: A Retrospective on Merger Benefits (479.47 KB)

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The Economics of Price Zones and Territorial Restrictions in Gasoline Marketing

Date

March 1, 2004

We review explanations for two controversial vertical restraints commonly used in gasoline marketing: price zones and territorial restrictions. After a discussion of the relevant empirical and...

The Economics of Price Zones and Territorial Restrictions in Gasoline Marketing (113.96 KB)

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The Effect of Mortgage Broker Compensation Disclosures on Consumers and Competition: A Controlled Experiment

Date

February 1, 2004

This report presents the results of a study that uses a controlled experiment with over 500 recent mortgage customers to examine the mortgage broker compensation disclosure proposed by the Department...

Full Report (2.94 MB)

Executive Summary (261.53 KB)

Text of the Report (1.11 MB)

Appendices (1.15 MB)

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Is It Always Optimal to “Sell the Firm” to a Risk-Neutral Agent?

Date

February 1, 2004

The paper shows that the answer is no. Holmstrom (1979) and Shavell (1979) show that the sellthe firm contract does not achieve the first best when the principal and the agent have different...

Is It Always Optimal to “Sell the Firm” to a Risk-Neutral Agent? (207.39 KB)

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Quantifying Antitrust Regimes

Date

February 1, 2004

This paper introduces means of quantifying global trend of proliferation in antitrust laws, and introduces measures to assess the presence of such laws across a large set of countries. In particular...

Quantifying Antitrust Regimes (229.52 KB)

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Bargaining, Bundling, and Clout: The Portfolio Effects of Horizontal Mergers

Date

December 1, 2003

This paper examines the output and profit effects of horizontal mergers between upstream firms in intermediate goods markets. We consider market settings in which the upstream firms sell...

Bargaining, Bundling, and Clout: The Portfolio Effects of Horizontal Mergers (264.19 KB)

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