Advocates of "open access" claim that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should be able to use a cable TV system's bandwidth on the same terms offered to ISPs owned by the cable system. On that view, "open access" mitigates a monopoly bottleneck and encourages the growth of broadband. This paper...

Do smaller, less liquid markets help predict prices in more liquid related markets? Using TRACE data for 2002-08 for 1,167 bonds issued by 442 firms, we find that a decline of 10% over three months of a firm's bonds is associated with an ensuing decline of 3% to 6% in its stock. Bond price...

Mergers, acquisitions and takeovers often imply dramatic changes for employees, competitors, customers and suppliers. Not surprisingly, the market for corporate control has generated controversy and is frequently regulated by law or business custom. Though transfers of control take place in many...

The effects of antitrust policy are illuminated in an extensive series of enforcement actions against Microsoft. As antitrust intervention promises to benefit a broad spectrum of publicly traded firms, stock market reactions to enforcement quot;eventsquot; constitute forecasts of the net...

Do smaller, less liquid markets help predict prices in more liquid related markets? Using TRACE bond trade data for 1,958 bonds issued by 663 firms, we find that a decline of 10% in a firm's bonds over one month is associated with a decline of 2.1% in its stock the following month. The...