This program discusses recent challenges to hospital and health care provider mergers. In several high-profile cases, the FTC has successfully sought to block mergers. But in other cases, State authorities have intervened to permit mergers despite the FTC’s view that the mergers were anti-competitive. The panel will look back at these recent issues, and will look forward to how the issues may play out in the Trump Administration. Gregory Vistnes is a speaker on this panel.
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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...