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Compliments Integration and Leverage: The Case of the Middleman

Date

December 1, 1999

In some cases, complementary products are sold to different sets of agents to aid in transactions between them. In the context of a simplified model, this paper shows that a monopolist has an...

Compliments Integration and Leverage: The Case of the Middleman (56.93 KB)

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Transformation and Continuity: The U.S. Carbonated Soft Drink Bottling Industry and Antitrust Policy Since 1980

Date

November 1, 1999

This report analyzes the U.S. carbonated soft drink ("CSD") industry, with its primary focus on the 1980s and early 1990s, a period of rapid structural change that transformed the industry. In...

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The Effect of Asymmetric Entry Costs on Bertrand Competition

Date

October 1, 1999

By permitting firms to have different entry costs, I generalize two previously studied models of two-stage entry and pricing amongst Bertrand competitors. I find that the existing results depend...

The Effect of Asymmetric Entry Costs on Bertrand Competition (330.49 KB)

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Regulatory Restrictions on Vertical Integration and Control: The Competitive Impact of Gasoline Divorcement Policies

Date

July 1, 1999

Gasoline "divorcement" regulations restrict the integration of gasoline refiners and retailers. Theoretically, vertical integration can harm competition, making it possible that divorcement policies...

Regulatory Restrictions on Vertical Integration and Control: The Competitive Impact of Gasoline Divorcement Policies (71.49 KB)

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The Competitive Effects of Not-for-Profit Hospital Mergers: A Case Study

Date

May 1, 1999

Applying conventional horizontal merger enforcement rules to mergers of nonprofit hospitals is controversial. Critics contend that the different objective function of not-for-profits entities should...

The Competitive Effects of Not-for-Profit Hospital Mergers: A Case Study (90.27 KB)

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The Pharmaceutical Industry: A Discussion of Competitive and Antitrust Issues in an Environment of Change

Date

March 1, 1999

The report reviews significant informational, institutional, and structural changes that have influenced price and non-price competition strategies of brand-name pharmaceutical companies, particularly...

Report: The Pharmaceutical Industry: A Discussion of Competitive and Antitrust Issues in an Environment of Change (9.38 MB)

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Price Competition and Advertising Signals

Date

January 1, 1999

Can price and advertising be used by vertically differentiated duopolists to signal qualities to consumers? We show that pure price separation is impossible if the vertical differentiation is small...

Price Competition and Advertising Signals (682.37 KB)

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Multimarket Contact and Imperfect Information

Date

January 1, 1999

With perfect information about relevant strategic variables, economic theory predicts that firms engaged in competition across several markets sometimes can use their multimarket contact to blunt...

Multimarket Contact and Imperfect Information (522.4 KB)

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Market Power and the Cross-Industry Behavior of Prices Around a Business Cycle Trough

Date

December 1, 1998

Our paper examines the behavior of prices in a large number of highly-disaggregated industries around the trough of the business cycle. We conclude that the degree to which prices are pro- or counter-...

Market Power and the Cross-Industry Behavior of Prices Around a Business Cycle Trough (650.72 KB)

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A Generic Copy Test of Food Health Claims in Advertising

Date

November 1, 1998

The attached memorandum presents the results of a large scale advertising copy test project that was conducted jointly by the Division of Advertising Practices and the Bureau of Economics of the...

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The Competitive Effects of Mergers Between Asymmetric Firms

Date

August 1, 1998

The 1992 Horizontal Merger Guidelines suggest that the merger of two relatively weak competitors may result in a strong competitor and may lead to lower prices, despite the resulting increase in...

The Competitive Effects of Mergers Between Asymmetric Firms (457.04 KB)

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Price Movements over the Business Cycle in U.S. Manufacturing Industries

Date

June 1, 1998

This paper develops and tests implications of an oligopoly pricing model. The model involves capacity investments that are made before demand is revealed and pricing decisions that are made after...

Price Movements over the Business Cycle in U.S. Manufacturing Industries (734.2 KB)

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Physicians Networks, Integration and Efficiency

Date

April 1, 1998

The creation of physician networks has been an important part of the managed care revolution. while the anticompetitive dangers of physician-controlled networks are clear, there has been little...

Physicians Networks, Integration and Efficiency (60.63 KB)

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Identifying the Firm-Specific Cost Pass-Through Rate

Date

January 1, 1998

A merger that permits the combined company to reduce the marginal cost of producing a product creates an incentive for it to lower price. Accordingly, the rate at which cost changes are passed through...

Identifying the Firm-Specific Cost Pass-Through Rate (52.56 KB)

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Are Retailing Mergers Anticompetitive? An Event Study Analysis

Date

January 1, 1998

We examine the abnormal returns of rival firms to determine whether four retailing mergers that occurred during the late 1980s reduced competition. We use the stock returns of retailers in geographic...

Are Retailing Mergers Anticompetitive? An Event Study Analysis (72.37 KB)

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Competition and the Financial Impact of the Proposed Tobacco Industry Settlement

Date

September 1, 1997

The report analyzes the potential impact of the proposed tobacco industry settlement on cigarette prices, industry profits, and government revenues. The main conclusions of the report are that (1) the...

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Discriminatory Dealing with Downstream Competitors: Evidence from the Cellular Industry

Date

August 1, 1997

Concern over regulated monopolies entering unregulated vertically-related markets is grounded in the incentives for such firms to cross-subsidize their unregulated enterprises or discriminate against...

Discriminatory Dealing with Downstream Competitors: Evidence from the Cellular Industry (140.25 KB)

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Market Structure and the Flow of Information in Repeated Auctions

Date

December 1, 1996

There is an ongoing public policy debate regarding vertical integration and its concomitant information flows. Of particular concern is that the information derived by an auctioneer (such as a...

Market Structure and the Flow of Information in Repeated Auctions (502.91 KB)

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Do Nonprofit Hospitals Exercise Market Power?

Date

November 1, 1996

Several theories of nonprofit hospital behavior predict that nonprofit hospitals behave in the consumer interest and thus do not exercise market power. If these theories are correct, then antitrust...

Do Nonprofit Hospitals Exercise Market Power? (54.62 KB)

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Information and Advertising Policy: A Study of Fat and Cholesterol Consumption in the United States, 1977-1990

Date

September 1, 1996

The study examines changes in the consumption of fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol from 1977 to 1990, a period when federal policy governing diet-disease claims changed. The study finds that dietary...

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