Filippos Papasavvas
Comparing Spain's and Chile's olive oil sectors
Boza et al. (2023) compared the competitiveness of Spain’s and Chile’s olive oil industries using quantitative metrics and Porter’s...
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Filippos Papasavvas
Nov 21, 2023
Can vertical mergers benefit consumers?
In his 1950 paper ‘Vertical Integration and Antitrust Policy’, Spengler posited that vertical mergers could lead to lower consumer...
Filippos Papasavvas
Jul 12, 2023
On competition policy in the "New Economy"
In a 2001 paper, Robert Pitofsky, former Commissioner of the US Federal Trade Commission, examined the challenges faced by antitrust...
Filippos Papasavvas
Jul 4, 2023
Does multi-market contact drive up US hospital prices?
Schmitt (2017) found evidence that multi-market contact in the US hospital industry has led to higher hospital prices. This suggests that...
Filippos Papasavvas
Jun 25, 2023
On horizontal merger screenings: UPP vs HHI
In their seminal 2010 paper, Farrell and Shapiro introduced a novel metric for the evaluation of unilateral price effects in horizontal...
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