Ownership Consolidation and Product Characteristics: A Study of the US Daily Newspaper Market

Ying Fan ()

American Economic Review, 2013, vol. 103, issue 5, 1598-1628

Abstract: This paper develops a structural model of newspaper markets to analyze the effects of ownership consolidation, taking into account not only firms' price adjustments but also the adjustments in newspaper characteristics. A new dataset on newspaper prices and characteristics is used to estimate the model. The paper then simulates the effect of a merger in the Minneapolis newspaper market and studies how welfare effects of mergers vary with market characteristics. It finds that ignoring adjustments of product characteristics causes substantial differences in estimated effects of mergers.

JEL-codes: G32 L13 L82 M37 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.103.5.1598
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