Tag: Bureau of Economics

Report finds that firms who lose litigated FTC advertising cases can suffer a 5 percent loss in market value. The report also examined NAD, NARB, and Lanham Act cases.

Report reviews all 203 public and private RPM cases from 1976 to 1982 (pre-Monsanto decision). Finds that case records are consistent with several of the efficiency-enhancing rationales for the use of...

Study evaluates the effects of CON regulation on hospital costs using 1983-1984 data for a national sample of 3708 hospitals. Study finds no evidence that CON programs have led to the resource savings...

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...

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...

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...