There is a growing interest in understanding the “ownership interests hypothesis,” i.e., whether investors holding interests in competing firms will soften firms’ incentives to compete and generate anticompetitive effects. But what do the data show? In this podcast episode of Our Curious Amalgam, Isabel Tecu, Principal in CRA’s Antitrust & Competition Practice and co-author of a leading study on common ownership focusing on the airlines industry, discusses her observations and insights with Anora Wang and Christina Ma. Listen to this episode to learn about the knowns and unknowns from the empirical evidence as well as implications for competition policy.
Examining physician practice groups’ options to manage rising administrative and operational complexities
Charles River Associates (CRA) was commissioned by McKesson to analyze the economic role of McKesson’s Management Services Organizations (MSOs) within the...