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Understanding UPP


Roy J. Epstein


Independent

Daniel L. Rubinfeld


University of California at Berkeley - School of Law; NYU Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
January 2, 2011


Abstract:     
Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro have proposed a measure of Upward Pricing Pressure (UPP) as offering a presumption of anticompetitive unilteral effects in a merger. We explain that the underlying framework (which relies on Bertrand competition) is in fact a special case of a more general merger simulation methodology. We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the framework as a policy tool.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 10

Keywords: merger analysis, unilateral effects

JEL Classification: L40, L10

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Date posted: January 4, 2011  

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Epstein, Roy J. and Rubinfeld, Daniel L., Understanding UPP (January 2, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1734012 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1734012

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Roy J. Epstein (Contact Author)
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Daniel L. Rubinfeld
University of California at Berkeley - School of Law ( email )
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Berkeley, CA 94720-7200
United States
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National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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