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I model multimarket competition when consumers value firm scope across markets. Such competition is surprisingly common - consumers in many industries prefer firms that operate in more geographic and/or product markets. I show that these preferences permit firms of differing scopes to coexist in...
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The relationship between gasoline prices and the demand for vehicle fuel efficiency is important for environmental policy but poorly understood in the academic literature. We provide empirical evidence that automobile manufacturers price as if consumers respond to gasoline prices. We derive a...
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We characterize the evolution of markups for consumer products in the United States from 2006 to 2019. We use detailed data on prices and quantities for products in more than 100 distinct product categories to estimate demand systems with flexible consumer preferences. We recover markups under...
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The diversion ratio is a key input to indicators of merger harm like upward pricing pressure. Measuring the diversion ratio, however, is challenging in the presence of consumer switching costs. We propose an identification strategy for diversion that relies on win/loss data from the two merging...
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The diversion ratio is a key input to many indicators of merger harm. Measuring the diversion ratio, however, is challenging in the presence of state dependence driven by things like consumer switching costs. We propose an identification strategy for diversion based on win/loss data. First, we...
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