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Title: Efficiency Gain from Ownership Deregulation: Estimates for the Radio Industry

Author(s): Catherine O'Gorman and Howard Smith

Publication Date: February 2008

Keyword(s): moment inequalities

Programme Area(s): Industrial Organization

Abstract: Reducing fixed cost duplication - a common justification for concentrated market structure - motivated the US government to relax the number of radio stations a firm could operate in any local market. After deregulation the number of firms per market decreased. The implied cost saving depends on the per market fixed costs incurred by each firm. Using data from 140 markets we estimate upper and lower bounds to fixed costs using (i) an empirical model of gross profit and (ii) the assumption that the observed post-deregulation market structure is a Nash equilibrium. The estimates suggest that the efficiency savings were significant.

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O'Gorman, C and Smith, H. 2008. 'Efficiency Gain from Ownership Deregulation: Estimates for the Radio Industry'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=6699