Understanding the effects of competition among Internet service providers on the availability and quality of broadband is important for policies aimed at decreasing the digital divide. To improve this understanding, I develop and estimate a structural model of vertical differentiation using...

We investigate mergers in markets where quality differences between products are central and firms may reposition their product lines by adding or removing products of different qualities following a merger. Such mergers are materially different from those studied in the existing literature....

This paper considers horizontal merging decision under price and quality competition and examines whether two competing firms should merge and which merging strategy (i.e., centralized or decentralized merger) is optimal. Although horizontal mergers are prevalent in practice and have been...