Daniel P. O'Brien

Microfoundations

14250 Hansel Ave

Truckee, CA 96161

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1.

The Competitive Effects of Common Ownership: Economic Foundations and Empirical Evidence

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 26 Jul 2017
Pauline Kennedy, Daniel P. O'Brien, Minjae Song and Keith Waehrer
Bates White Economic Consulting, Microfoundations, The Brattle Group and Secretariat Economists
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Price, concentration, common ownership, partial ownership, mergers

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The Competitive Effects of Common Ownership: We Know Less than We Think

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 24 Feb 2017
Daniel P. O'Brien and Keith Waehrer
Microfoundations and Secretariat Economists
Downloads 1,718 (17,329)
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Common Ownership, Antitrust, Mergers, Partial Acquisitions, Corporate Governance

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A Comparative Study of United States and European Union Approaches to Vertical Policy

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 06 Apr 2005
James C. Cooper, Luke M. Froeb, Daniel P. O'Brien and Michael Vita
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, Microfoundations and U.S. Federal Trade Commission - Bureau of Economics
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Vertical Antitrust Policy as a Problem of Inference

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Vertical Antitrust Policy as a Problem of Inference

Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 05-12
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Apr 2005
James C. Cooper, Luke M. Froeb, Daniel P. O'Brien and Michael Vita
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, Microfoundations and U.S. Federal Trade Commission - Bureau of Economics
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Vertical Antitrust Policy as a Problem of Inference

Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 05-12
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Jun 2005
James C. Cooper, Luke M. Froeb, Daniel P. O'Brien and Michael Vita
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, Microfoundations and U.S. Federal Trade Commission - Bureau of Economics
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Vertical Restrictions and Antitrust Policy: What About the Evidence?

Competition Policy International, Vol. 1, No. 2, Autumn 2005, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 05-32
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 21 Oct 2005
James C. Cooper, Luke M. Froeb, Daniel P. O'Brien and Michael Vita
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, Microfoundations and U.S. Federal Trade Commission - Bureau of Economics
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Price-Concentration Analysis: Ending the Myth, and Moving Forward

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 26 Jul 2017
Daniel P. O'Brien
Microfoundations
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Price concentration, structure conduct performance, mergers, partial ownership

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A Paradox in Measuring Corporate Control

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 11 Sep 2000
John E. Parsons, Christopher Maxwell and Daniel P. O'Brien
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Charles River Associates and Microfoundations
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Corporate control, shapley value, cross ownership

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A Critical Analysis of Critical Loss Analysis

FTC Bureau of Economics Working Paper No. 254
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 21 Aug 2003
Daniel P. O'Brien and Abraham L. Wickelgren
Microfoundations and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law
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Critical Loss Analysis

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The Economics of Vertical Restraints in Digital Markets

The Global Antitrust Institute Report on the Digital Economy 9
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 19 Nov 2020
Daniel P. O'Brien
Microfoundations
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Does Price Discrimination Intensify Competition? Implications for Antitrust

Antitrust Law Journal, Vol. 72, No. 2, pp. 327-373, 2005, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 14-30
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 24 Jul 2014
James C. Cooper, Luke M. Froeb, Daniel P. O'Brien and Steven Tschantz
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, Microfoundations and Vanderbilt University - Department of Mathematics
Downloads 281 (182,394)
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antitrust, competition, consumer location, market power, merger, monopoly, oligopoly, spatial competitors, spatial price discrimination, Robinson-Patman Act

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The Welfare Effects of Third Degree Price Discrimination in Intermediate Good Markets: The Case of Bargaining

FTC Bureau of Economics Working Paper No. 245
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 21 Jul 2003
Daniel P. O'Brien
Microfoundations
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Price discrimination, bargaining

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Conditional Pricing Practices – A Short Primer

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 20 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2017
Patrick DeGraba, Patrick Greenlee and Daniel P. O'Brien
Federal Trade Commission - Antitrust I, U.S. Department of Justice - Antitrust Division and Microfoundations
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Bundling; Tying; Market Share Discount; All-Units Discounts; Exclusive Dealing; Loyalty Discounts; Conditional Pricing Practice

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Tethering Vertical Merger Analysis

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 31 Mar 2022
Daniel P. O'Brien
Microfoundations
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Vertical Mergers, Foreclosure, Raising Rivals' Costs, Vertical Math

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Bargaining, Bundling, and Clout: The Portfolio Effects of Horizontal Mergers

FTC Bureau of Economics Working Paper No. 266
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Apr 2004
Daniel P. O'Brien and Greg Shaffer
Microfoundations and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
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Vertical Mergers with Bilateral Contracting and Upstream and Downstream Investment

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Vertical Mergers with Bilateral Contracting and Upstream and Downstream Investment

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2021
Mark A. Israel and Daniel P. O'Brien
Compass Lexecon and Microfoundations
Downloads 184 (271,715)
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Vertical mergers, Bilateral contracting externalities, Hold-up, Moral hazard

Vertical Mergers with Bilateral Contracting and Upstream and Downstream Investment

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 19 Jan 2023
Daniel P. O'Brien and Mark A. Israel
Microfoundations and Compass Lexecon
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Vertical Mergers, Bilateral Contracting Externalities, Double Moral Hazard, Complementary Investments

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Tying, Bundling, and the Microfoundations of Double Marginalization

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 05 May 2018 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2023
Daniel P. O'Brien and Greg Shaffer
Microfoundations and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
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Double Marginalization, Bundling, Tying

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All-Units Discounts and Double Moral Hazard

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2017
Daniel P. O'Brien
Microfoundations
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All-units discounts, retroactive rebates, double marginalization, double moral hazard, principal-agent

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Agency Pricing and Bargaining: Evidence from the E-Book Market

NET Institute Working Paper No. 18-14, Kelley School of Business Research Paper No. 18-90
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 13 Nov 2018
Babur De los Santos, Daniel P. O'Brien and Matthijs R. Wildenbeest
Clemson University, Microfoundations and University of Arizona - Department of Economics
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e-books, agency agreements, vertical restraints, bargaining

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Privacy in Online Markets: A Welfare Analysis of Demand Rotations

FTC Bureau of Economics Working Paper No. 323
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 08 Aug 2014
Daniel P. O'Brien and Doug Smith
Microfoundations and Government of the United States of America - Federal Trade Commission
Downloads 141 (340,039)
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Privacy, Disclosure, Product Design, Advertising, Demand Rotation, Product Attributes

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The DOJ and FTC RFI on Merger Enforcement: Commentary on Labor Market and Non-Price Effects

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 02 May 2022
Daniel P. O'Brien
Microfoundations
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Mergers, Labor market effects, Non-price effects

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Cheap Exclusion in Markets with Multiple Complements

International Journal of Industrial Organization, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 20 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2023
Daniel P. O'Brien, Mark A. Israel and Erica Benton
Microfoundations, Compass Lexecon and Compass Lexecon
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Exclusive Dealing; Cheap Exclusion; Bargaining; Pharmaceuticals; Healthcare; Health Insurance

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Guidelines Lacking Guidance: Improving the FTC/DOJ Draft Merger Guidelines

Number of pages: 18
Mark A. Israel, Daniel P. O'Brien, Jonathan Orszag, Jeremy Sandford, Loren Smith, Nathan Wilson and Nathan Wilson
Compass Lexecon, Microfoundations, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Compass Lexecon, Compass Lexecon and Compass LexeconCompass Lexecon
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Merger Guidelines, Antitrust

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The Welfare Effects of Use-or-Lose Provisions in Markets with Dominant Firms

U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics, Working Paper No. 299
Posted: 04 Feb 2010
Daniel P. O'Brien and Ian L. Gale
Microfoundations and Georgetown University - Department of Economics

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Dominant firm, use-or-lose provision, acquisition, merger, divestiture

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Competitive Effects of Partial Ownership: Financial Interest and Corporate Control

Posted: 25 Nov 1999
Steven C. Salop and Daniel P. O'Brien
Georgetown University Law Center and Microfoundations

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