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Price Leadership with Incomplete Information
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Buyers and Entry Barriers
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This paper develops an analysis of markets in which sellers have significant sunk investments; it takes considerable time to enter; and buyers can make credible commitments to obtain alternative...
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Comments to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Natural Gas
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The Federal Trade Commission staff has told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that market rivals may be able to use the agency's regulatory process to impede competition in the...
Comments to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about Radio Ownership
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The Federal Trade Commission staff has told the Federal Communications Commission that the FCC's recently proposed modifications in radio ownership rules may result in significant cost-savings and...
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The Potential for Tax Gains as a Merger Motive: A Survey of Current Knowledge and Research Opportunities
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Evaluates the literature on the "tax-incentive" hypothesis that tax provisions provide important incentives for mergers, particularly mergers which, though they may not be anticompetitive, are...
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International Competitiveness and the Trade Deficit
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Using statistical analysis, the study concludes that industry-specific factors (unfair trade practices, low R&D, union work rules, antitrust laws, etc.) are not the cause of the aggregate U.S. trade...
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Competition Among Hospitals
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Hospital price and expense data for 1978-79 are examined to identify the effects of competition. The results imply that a reduction in market concentration results in an increase in both price and...
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A Note on Obtaining Estimates of Cross-Elasticities of Demand
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Based on the concept of weakly separable utility (which applied empirical work implicitly or explicitly assumes), this paper develops a theoretical condition that a set of own and cross-elasticity of...
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Restrictions on Dental Auxiliaries
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Examines empirically the effects of various state restrictions on the number and use of dental hygienists and assistants. Concludes that relaxation of restrictions on the number of hygienists that a...
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A Note on Joint Ventures in Which Firms Contribute Complementary Inputs
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This note compares the efficiency of a joint venture with supply, output royalty and lump sum arrangements in the context of firms contributing complementary inputs to some project. In a world of...
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A Critical Evaluation of Petroleum Import Tariffs: Analytical and Historical Perspectives
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A cost/benefit analysis of a petroleum import tariff. The study finds that such a tariff imposes a net loss on society and is an inefficient means of attaining any national goals.
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State Regulation of Takeovers and Shareholder Wealth: The Effects of New York State's 1985 Takeover Statutes
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Study examines the stock market's reactions to two anti-takeover statutes passed by New York State in 1985. Findings indicate that the law resulted in an average decline in equity value of nearly one...
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An Empirical Conjectural Variation Model of Oligopoly
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Price conjectural variations are estimated to measure the degree of price competition in a product differentiated oligopoly. The empirical model is a simultaneous equation system of product demand and...
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Why Price Correlations Do Not Define Antitrust Markets: On Econometric Algorithms for Market Definition
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This paper compares two econometric methods that have been proposed for market definition: price correlations and residual demand curve estimation. Econometric theory is used to demonstrate that price...
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Mergers, Event Studies, and Systematic Risk
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