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Publikováno v:
The Antitrust Bulletin. 68:154-163
In December 2014, Thai Union, the parent company of Chicken of the Sea canned tuna announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire Bumble Bee tuna from Lion Capital. In the course of standard merger review, the Department of Justice subpoenaed
Autor:
Marc Remer, Nicholas Hill
Publikováno v:
Economic Inquiry. 58:1469-1486
We study the impact of management diversity on employment outcomes using data on NBA head coaches that includes information on the race of each coach and his supervisor. We find that a supervisor is more likely to hire a coach of his own race. We als
Autor:
Marc Remer, Reed Orchinik
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
We analyze the effect of four US airline mergers using three retrospective techniques: standard difference-in-differences regression, synthetic control, and nearest neighbor matching. In doing so, we compare the performance of the most recently devel
Autor:
Mitsukuni Nishida, Marc Remer
Publikováno v:
Economics Letters. 162:1-4
We demonstrate that regulations that lower consumer search costs and make them less heterogeneous across consumers can lead to higher prices charged by firms. We estimate the distribution of consumer search costs for 366 isolated retail gasoline mark
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Industrial Organization. 52:216-247
We use Monte Carlo experiments to evaluate whether “upward pricing pressure” (UPP) accurately predicts the price effects of mergers, motivated by the observation that UPP is a restricted form of the first order approximation derived in Jaffe and
Autor:
Alexander MacKay, Marc Remer
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
We study the pricing decision of firms in the presence of consumer inertia. Inertia, which can arise from habit formation, brand loyalty, and switching costs, generates dynamic pricing incentives. These incentives mediate the impact of competition on
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Industrial Economics. 64:683-709
We use Monte Carlo experiments to study how pass‐through can improve merger price predictions, focusing on the first order approximation (FOA) proposed in Jaffe and Weyl [[Jaffe, S., 2013]]. FOA addresses the functional form misspecification that c
Autor:
Marc Remer
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Industrial Organization. 42:46-56
This article empirically investigates the cause of asymmetric pricing: retail prices responding faster to cost increases than decreases. Using daily price data for over 11,000 retail gasoline stations, I find that prices fall more slowly than they ri
Autor:
Marc Remer, Nicholas Hill
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Increasing diversity in upper management positions is often cited as a way to improve a firm's performance and generate more diverse hires. We study the impact of management diversity on employment outcomes using rich data on NBA head coaches that in
Publikováno v:
The Antitrust Bulletin. 59:599-618
United States v. H&R Block has been viewed as a contest between old and new approaches to merger analysis: a structural approach centering on market definition versus an effects analysis involving merger simulation. The economists on the DOJ team, ho