Arbeitspapier
Upward Pricing Pressure as a Predictor of Merger Price Effects
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 Weyl (2013). Results indicate that UPP is quite accurate with standard log-concave demand systems, but understates price effects if demand exhibits greater convexity. Prediction error does not systematically exceed that of misspecifed simulation models, nor is it much greater than that of correctly-specifed models simulated with imprecise demand elasticities. The results also support that both UPP and the HHI change provide accurate screens for anticompetitive mergers.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: EAG Discussion Paper ; No. EAG 16-2
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Miller, Nathan
Remer, Marc
Ryan, Conor
Sheu, Gloria
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Economic Analysis Group (EAG)
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Washington, DC
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2016
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Miller, Nathan
- Remer, Marc
- Ryan, Conor
- Sheu, Gloria
- U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Economic Analysis Group (EAG)
Entstanden
- 2016
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