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Pricing Patterns in Wholesale Electricity Markets: Unilateral Market Power or Coordinated Behavior?

David P. Brown, Andrew Eckert

We examine allegations that firms in Alberta's electricity industry manipulated public...

What Determines Heterogeneous Merger Effects on Competitive Outcomes?

Ralph Siebert

We estimate heterogeneous merger effects where (conditional on covariates) merger effects...

Regulating Data Privacy and Cybersecurity

Wing Man Wynne Lam, Jacob Seifert

This paper studies firms' data privacy and cybersecurity choices. We emphasize the strategic interdependence between these decisions and...

Corporate Leniency Programs when Firms have Private Information: The Push of Prosecution and the Pull of Pre-emption

Joseph E. Harrington

A corporate leniency program provides relief from government penalties to the first member of a cartel to cooperate with the authorities. This study explores the incentives to apply for leniency...

A Structural Approach to Market Definition with an Application to the Hospital Industry

Martin S. Gaynor, Samuel A. Kleiner, William B. Vogt

Market definition is common in merger analysis, and often the decisive factor in antitrust cases. This has been particularly relevant in the hospital industry, where many merger challenges have...

Bertrand Competition with an Asymmetric No-discrimination Constraint

Jan Bouckaert, Hans Degryse, Theon Dijk

Regulators and competition authorities often prevent firms with significant market power, or dominant firms, from practicing price discrimination. The goal of such an asymmetric no-discrimination...

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