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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The Price Effects of a Large Merger of Manufacturers: A Case Study of Maytag-Whirlpool
Contributor:
Ashenfelter, Orley C;
Hosken, Daniel S;
Weinberg, Matthew C
imprint:
American Economic Association, 2013
Published in:American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1257/pol.5.1.239
ISSN:
1945-7731;
1945-774X
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p> Many experts speculate that US antitrust policy towards horizontal mergers has been too lenient. We estimate the price effects of Whirlpool's acquisition of Maytag to provide new evidence on this debate. We compare price changes in appliance markets most affected by the merger to markets where concentration changed much less or not at all. We estimate price increases for dishwashers and relatively large price increases for clothes dryers, but no price effects for refrigerators or clothes washers. The combined firm's market share fell across all four affected categories, and the number of distinct appliance products offered for sale fell. (JEL G34, K21, L11, L41, L68) </jats:p>