Many industries are characterized by heterogeneous objectives on the part of firm owners. Owners of private firms, in particular, are likely to maximize utility, rather than profits. In this paper, we model and measure motivations of owners in on particular industry, the California wine...

We test if an increase in common ownership changes future expected profits with an event study method. We collect instances of stocks entering the S&P500 and identify their product market competitors. We measure changes in institutional and common ownership (with product market rivals) and find...

We test if an increase in common ownership changes future expected profits with an event study method. We collect instances of a stock entering the S&P 500 index and identify its product market competitors. We measure the change in institutional and common ownership (with product market rivals)...

The U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission issued draft Vertical Merger Guidelines on January 10, 2020. In the discussion on vertical merger policy, some commenters have relied on surveys of the empirical economic literature to justify a procompetitive presumption. This comment...