Numerous merger retrospective studies conducted in the Bureau of Economics have been released as working papers and have been published in academic journals. Below is a list of these studies including the title, author(s), journal, year of publication of the merger retrospective. We have also classified the primary industry(s) studied, the type of merger (horizontal/vertical), and the primary outcome(s) studied (e.g., price, output, or quality), and have provided a link to a downloadable version of each study.
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Title | Author(s) | Journal | Year | Merger type(s) | Industry | Outcome |
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Ashenfelter, Orley C.; Hosken, Daniel S.; Weinberg, Matthew C. | American Economic Journal: Economic Policy | 2013 | Horizontal | Consumer Products | Prices | |
Ashenfelter, Orley C.; Hosken, Daniel S.; Weinberg, Matthew C. | RAND Journal of Economics | 2015 | Horizontal | Consumer Products | Prices | |
Ashenfelter, Orley; Hosken, Daniel | Journal of Law and Economics | 2010 | Horizontal | Consumer Products | Prices | |
The Price and Profit Effects of Horizontal Merger: A Case Study | Barton, David M.; Sherman, Roger | Journal of Industrial Economics | 1984 | Horizontal | Other | Prices |
Brand, Keith, Chris Garmon, and Ted Rosenbaum | Journal of Law and Economics | 2023 | Horizontal | Healthcare | Price | |
The Union Pacific/Southern Pacific Rail Merger: A Retrospective on Merger Benefits | Breen, Denis A. | Review of Network Economics | 2004 | Horizontal | Ground Transport | Efficiencies |
The Evolution of the Baby Food Industry, 2000-2008 | Chen, Viola | Journal of Competition Law & Economics | 2010 | Horizontal | Consumer Products | Output, Prices |
Eliason, Paul J., Benjamin Heebsh, Ryan C. McDevitt, and James W. Roberts | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 2020 | Horizontal | Healthcare | Quality | |
Robustness of the Results in GAO’s 2004 Report Concerning Price Effects of Mergers and Concentration Changes in the Petroleum Industry | 51±¾É«Staff Technical Report | 51±¾É« | 2004 | Horizontal | Petroleum | Prices |
The Accuracy of Hospital Merger Screening Methods | Garmon, Christopher | RAND Journal of Economics | 2017 | Horizontal | Healthcare | Prices |
Garmon, Christopher; Kmitch, Laura | Journal of Competition Law & Economics | 2018 | Horizontal | Healthcare | Prices, Quality | |
Simulating a Homogeneous Product Merger: A Case Study on Model Fit and Performance | Greenfield, Daniel; Kreisle, Nicholas M.; Williams, Mark | 51±¾É«Bureau of Economics Working Paper | 2015 | Horizontal | Petroleum | Prices |
Hospital Mergers and Competitive Effects: Two Retrospective Analyses | Haas-Wilson, Deborah; Garmon, Christopher | International Journal of the Economics of Business | 2011 | Horizontal | Healthcare | Prices |
Do Retail Mergers Affect Competition? Evidence from Grocery Retailing | Hosken, Daniel S.; Olson, Luke M.; Smith, Loren K. | Journal of Economics & Management Strategy | 2018 | Horizontal | Retailing | Prices |
Hosken, Daniel; Silvia, Louis; Taylor, Christopher | American Economic Review | 2011 | Horizontal, Vertical | Petroleum | Prices | |
Koch, Thomas G.; Wendling, Brett W.; Wilson, Nathan E. | Journal of Health Economics | 2017 | Vertical | Healthcare | Spending, Costs | |
The Effects of Physician and Hospital Integration on Medicare Beneficiaries’ Health Outcomes | Koch, Thomas G.; Wendling, Brett W.; Wilson, Nathan E. | Review of Economics & Statistics | 2021 | Vertical | Healthcare | Quality |
Price Effects of a Merger: Evidence from a Physicians’ Market | Koch, Thomas; Ulrick, Shawn W. | Economic Inquiry | 2021 | Horizontal | Healthcare | Prices |
Merger Policy at the Margin: Western Refining's Acquisition of Giant Industries | Kreisle, Nicholas | Review of Industrial Organization | 2015 | Horizontal | Petroleum | Prices |
Price Effects from the Merger of Agricultural Fertilizer Manufacturers Agrium and PotashCorp | Kreisle, Nicholas | 51±¾É«Bureau of Economics Working Paper | 2020 | Horizontal | Other | Prices |
Price Effects from the Merger of Agricultural Fertilizer Manufacturers Agrium and PotashCorp | Kreisle, Nicholas | 51±¾É«Bureau of Economics Working Paper | 2020 | Horizontal | Other | Price |
Osinski, David F.; Sandford, Jeremy A. | Journal of Law, Economics & Organization | 2021 | Horizontal | Other | Output, Prices | |
A Retrospective Analysis of the Clinical Quality Effects of the Acquisition of Highland Park Hospital by Evanston Northwestern Healthcare | Romano, Patrick S.; Balan, David J. | International Journal of the Economics of Business | 2011 | Horizontal | Healthcare | Quality |
Case Studies Of The Price Effects Of Horizontal Mergers | Schumann, Laurence; D. Reitzes, James; Rogers, Robert P. | 51±¾É«Bureau of Economics Staff Report | 1992 | Horizontal | Other | Prices |
Petroleum Mergers and Competition in the Northeast United States | Silvia, Louis; Taylor, Christopher T. | International Journal of the Economics of Business | 2013 | Horizontal | Petroleum | Prices |
Geographic Markets in Hospital Mergers: A Case Study | Simpson, John | International Journal of the Economics of Business | 2003 | Horizontal | Healthcare | Other |
Do Gasoline Mergers Affect Consumer Prices? The Marathon Ashland Petroleum and Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Transaction | Simpson, John; Taylor, Christopher | Journal of Law and Economics | 2008 | Horizontal | Petroleum | Prices |
The Economic Effects of the Marathon-Ashland Joint Venture: The Importance of Industry Supply Shocks and Vertical Market Structure | Taylor, Christopher T.; Hosken, Daniel S. | Journal of Industrial Economics | 2007 | Horizontal | Petroleum | Prices |
Vertical Relationships and Competition in Retail Gasoline Markets: Empirical Evidence from Contract Changes in Southern California: Comment | Taylor, Christopher T.; Kreisle, Nicholas M.; Zimmerman, Paul R. | American Economic Review | 2010 | Horizontal, Vertical | Petroleum | Prices |
The Price Effects of Hospital Mergers: A Case Study of the Sutter-Summit Transaction | Tenn, Steven | International Journal of the Economics of Business | 2011 | Horizontal | Healthcare | Prices |
The Success of Divestitures in Merger Enforcement: Evidence from the J&J-Pfizer Transaction | Tenn, Steven; Yun, John M. | International Journal of Industrial Organization | 2011 | Horizontal | Consumer Products | Distribution, Prices, Quality |
The Effect of Hospital Mergers on Inpatient Prices: A Case Study of the New Hanover-Cape Fear Transaction | Thompson, Aileen | International Journal of the Economics of Business | 2011 | Horizontal | Healthcare | Prices |
The Competitive Effects of Not-for-Profit Hospital Mergers: A Case Study | Vita, Michael G.; Sacher, Seth | Journal of Industrial Economics | 2001 | Horizontal | Healthcare | Prices |
Weinberg, Matthew C.; Hosken, Daniel | Review of Economics & Statistics | 2013 | Horizontal | Consumer Products | Prices |