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Reversing Roles: Stackelberg Incentive Contract Equilibrium

Date

July 1, 1994

This analysis derives the optimal incentive contracts owners offer managers who engage in Stackelberg-quantity competition. In contrast to the Coumot case, the owner of the leading firm motivates his...

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Effects of Unfair Imports on Domestic Industries: U.S. Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Cases, 1980-1988

Date

February 1, 1994

The study analyzes the effects of dumped and/or subsidized imports on the domestic industries with which they competed. The authors found that, in nearly 90 percent of the 179 cases analyzed, unfair...

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Resale Price Maintenance: An Economic Study of the FTC's Case Against Corning Glass Works

Date

January 1, 1994

The study is intended to help increase understanding of the economic motivation for RPM when the products at issue are relatively simple goods that do not fit the most well-known efficiency rationales...

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Vertical Contracts as Strategic Commitments

Date

December 1, 1993

Recent literature has shown that when retailers cannot observe contracts between a manufacturer and their rivals, the manufacturer will be unable to obtain the vertically integrated profit using two...

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Antitrust: Results from the Laboratory

Date

October 1, 1993

Industrial organization issues that are relevant to antitrust have been studied in the laboratory for over three decades, and the results of this research offer useful insights for applied work in...

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The Antitrust Implications of Entry by Small-Scale Hospitals

Date

October 1, 1993

Analyses of general acute care hospital mergers have traditionally defined the relevant product market as inpatient medical and surgical acute care and have generally assumed that economies of scale...

The Antitrust Implications of Entry by Small-Scale Hospitals (250.72 KB)

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Fight, Fold or Settle?: Modeling the Reaction to FTC Merger Challenges

Date

February 1, 1993

This paper models the reaction of firms to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) decisions to seek to block proposed horizontal mergers. Finns' responses to the FTC are shown to depend on a number of factors...

Fight, Fold or Settle?: Modeling the Reaction to FTC Merger Challenges (417.88 KB)

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Telecommunications Bypass and the "Brandon Effect"

Date

February 1, 1993

The creation of a charge for long distance companies to access the local telephone companies' switched network created the incentive to bypass the local switched network in order to avoid access...

Telecommunications Bypass and the "Brandon Effect" (462.75 KB)

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Product Variety and Consumer Search

Date

February 1, 1993

Previous work on consumer search has shown that consumers facing positive search costs do not sample more than one firm; that is, no search occurs in equilibrium. This result, as well as the price...

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An Analysis of Department Store Reference Pricing in Metropolitan Washington

Date

September 1, 1992

This report presents empirical evidence on the likely consumer injury associated with department store reference pricing, the common pricing strategy in which sale prices are contrasted prominently...

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Auctions Under Increasing Costs: Coordination Problems and the Existence of an Asymmetric Equilibrium

Date

August 1, 1992

This paper models procurement auctions when suppliers face increasing costs. It is shown than an asymmetric equilibrium exists whereby one bidder bids different prices on each project in a series of...

Auctions Under Increasing Costs: Coordination Problems and the Existence of an Asymmetric Equilibrium (559.84 KB)

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The Minimum Optimal Steel Plant and the Survivor Technique of Cost Estimation

Date

August 1, 1992

The survivor technique is used to examine economies of scale in the steel industry, and the results are compared to an earlier engineering approach study by Tarr. Specifically the paper focuses on the...

The Minimum Optimal Steel Plant and the Survivor Technique of Cost Estimation (165.28 KB)

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Beyond the Rhetoric: An Inquiry into the Goal of the Sherman Act

Date

August 1, 1992

The Sherman Antitrust Act is over a century old, yet debate continues about its original goal. Previous authors, focusing on the substance of the 1890 debate, have reached various conclusions about...

Beyond the Rhetoric: An Inquiry into the Goal of the Sherman Act (454.88 KB)

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Advertising Restrictions as Rent Increasing Costs

Date

May 1, 1992

This paper develops more general conditions for identifying when a cost increase may be profitable for incumbent firms. Given those conditions, it then shows that advertising restrictions can act as...

Advertising Restrictions as Rent Increasing Costs (393.29 KB)

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Market-Share Quotas

Date

April 1, 1992

Anecdotal evidence reveals that an import quota is not always filled when the quota is specified in terms of a market-share limit instead of a quantity limit. In a simple Cournot duopoly, we provide a...

Market-Share Quotas (412.33 KB)

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Case Studies of the Price Effects of Horizontal Mergers

Date

April 1, 1992

The study examines the aftermath of mergers in three industries: titanium dioxide, cement, and corrugated paperboard. The study finds a mixture of results with likely pro-competitive outcomes in...

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Antidumping Policy

Date

July 1, 1991

We examine antidumping policy in a model where a foreign firm is a monopolist in the foreign market, but competes with a native firm in the home market. An antidumping policy changes strategic...

Antidumping Policy (393.65 KB)

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Are Judges Smarter than Economists? Sunk Costs, The Threat of Entry and The Competitive Process

Date

June 1, 1991

Several recent antitrust cases indicate that courts believe the threat of entry can serve as an effective deterrent to an anticompetitive price increase. Yet there does not exist in the economic...

Are Judges Smarter than Economists? Sunk Costs, The Threat of Entry and The Competitive Process (308.23 KB)

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Bondholder Reaction to Increases in Leverage

Date

June 1, 1991

This paper finds that firms that have substantially increased leverage are more likely to issue convertible debt than firms that have increased leverage only slightly. Also, firms that have...

Bondholder Reaction to Increases in Leverage (164.18 KB)

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Merger and Regulatory Incentives

Date

May 1, 1991

This paper examines the incentives for two-product price-regulated firms to cross-subsidize when there are no economies or diseconomies of scope. If the two products are Substitutes and each product...

Merger and Regulatory Incentives (189.06 KB)

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