Efficiency gain from ownership deregulation: estimates for the radio industry

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 t...

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Main Author: O'Gorman, C
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2008