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Mergers in the U.S. Petroleum Industry, 1971-1984: An Updated Comparative Analysis
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Reviews recent evidence on oil industry mergers and concludes that conglomerate mergers have become less important and the mergers have had little impact on industry concentration.
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A Recalculation of Cline's Estimates of the Gains to Trade Liberalization in the Textile and Apparel Industries
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In a recent book, Cline estimated that current trade restrictions on textiles generate a net efficiency loss of $811 million annually, while those on apparel involve a loss of $7.3 billion. This paper...
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Regulation, Market Structure, and Hospital Costs: A Comment on the Work of Mayo and McFarland
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This paper provides a critique of a recent paper in the Southern Economic Journal concerning the effectiveness of Certificate of Need (CON) regulation in controlling hospital costs. ("Regulation...
April 25, 1989
FTC Charges National Business Consultants Inc. Deceived Purchasers; Asks Court to Order Halt to Violations
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The Federal Trade Commission has charged National Business Consultants Inc. with making false and misleading claims in the sale of business opportunities for business consulting services. At the FTC's...
April 1, 1989
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Terminal Railroad Revisited: Foreclosure of an Essential Facility or Simple Horizontal Monopoly
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St. Louis Terminal Railroad (1912) has been cited by a number of authors as a case of vertical foreclosure by competitive rivals. The alleged foreclosure has been used as a basis for the "Essential...
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Economics of Sham Litigation: Theory, Cases, and Policy
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Report examines court records on public and private Sherman Act "countersuits" entailing allegations of sham litigation, between 1972 and 1985. Using an empirical approach, the report seeks to answer...
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