CRA provided testimony on behalf of plaintiff in litigation regarding a health plan’s use of MFN clauses with hospitals. CRA identified several mechanisms by which the MFN clauses were likely to reduce competition in this matter and demonstrated that they had historically harmed competitors. CRA also analyzed whether this harm to competition was offset by the procompetitive effects of MFN clauses.
Merger simulation in second-score auctions: A nested logit model
In a recent Economics Letters article, CRA’s Martino De Stefano and Serge Moresi show how to improve the second-score auction model that is often used to...