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

Reducing …fixed cost duplication - a common justi…cation 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 fi…rms per market decreased. The implied cost saving depends on t...

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Main Authors: Smith, H, O’Gorman, C
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2008