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Quantitative techniques for competition and antitrust analysis

Eliana Garcés, Peter Davis

2010,2009

Overview

This book combines practical guidance and theoretical background for analysts using empirical techniques in competition and antitrust investigations. Peter Davis and Eliana Garcés show how to integrate empirical methods, economic theory, and broad evidence about industry in order to provide high-quality, robust empirical work that is tailored to the nature and quality of data available and that can withstand expert and judicial scrutiny. Davis and Garcés describe the toolbox of empirical techniques currently available, explain how to establish the weight of pieces of empirical work, and make some new theoretical contributions. The book consistently evaluates empirical techniques in light of the challenge faced by competition analysts and academics--to provide evidence that can stand up to the review of experts and judges. The book's integrated approach will help analysts clarify the assumptions underlying pieces of empirical work, evaluate those assumptions in light of industry knowledge, and guide future work aimed at understanding whether the assumptions are valid. Throughout, Davis and Garcés work to expand the common ground between practitioners and academics.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Advertising / Aggregate demand / Anti-trust legislation / Antitrust law / Approximation / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory / Calculation / Collusion / Commodity / Competition / Competition Commission / Consolidation and merger of corporations / Consumer / Cost curve / Cournot competition / Customer / Demand curve / Determinant / Dummy variable (statistics) / Econometrics / Economic equilibrium / Economic Policy / Economic surplus / Economics / Economist / Efficiency / Empirical research / Endogeneity / Endogeneity (econometrics) / Error term / Estimation / Estimator / Externality / Fusion / Fusionskontrolle / Incentive / Income / Industrial organization / Instrumental variable / Investment / Law / LAW / International / Long run and short run / Margin (finance) / Marginal cost / Marginal Cost Of Production / Market (economics) / Market power / Market price / Market structure / Marketing / Marktstruktur / Markup (business) / Mergers / Nash equilibrium / Natural experiment / Oligopoly / Parameter / Percentage / Perfect competition / POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy / Prediction / Price Change / Price elasticity of demand / Price fixing / Price level / Pricing / Product differentiation / Product market / Profit (economics) / Profit maximization / Public Policy / Quantity / Quantity Demanded / Regression analysis / Requirement / Research methods / Retail / Schätztheorie / Strategic complements / Supply (economics) / Supply and demand / Theorie / Theory / Total cost / Trade-off / Unternehmenskonzentration / Vertical integration / Welfare economics / Wettbewerbsbeschränkung / Wettbewerbspolitik / Ökonometrie / Übernahme
• ISBN: 9780691142579, 0691142572, 9781400831869, 1400831865