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Box Plot Statistics for "Summary" Tab for Horizontal Mergers
Description
A dataset containing the summary statistics necessary to make boxplots according to supply, demand, and percent of outside share for horizontal mergers so as to examine the distribution of outcomes.
Usage
sumboxdata
Format
A data frame with 210 rows and 10 variables
- Demand
log, logit, aids, ces, linear
- Model
cournot:log, cournot: linear, bertrand:aids, bertrand:logit, bertrand:ces, auction:logit
- Outcome
post-Merger index of interest (Industry Price Change (percent), Merging Party Price Change (percent), Consumer Harm (dollars), Producer Benefit (dollars), Net Harm (dollars)
- Supply
bertrand, cournot, auction
- high_wisk
maximum
- low_wisk
minimum
- pct25
25th percentile boxplot line
- pct50
50th percentile boxplot line
- pct75
75th percentile boxplot line
- shareOutThresh
outside share threshold in percent (20–70)
References
Taragin, C., & Loudermilk, M. (2019). Using measures of competitive harm for optimal screening of horizontal mergers. mimeo.doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.30872.85760/1.