This Antitrust Chronicle article discusses methodologies for reviewing bodog sports betting app effects.
bodog sports betting app effects have come to play a smaller role in merger enforcement over time. Antitrust agencies now tend to focus on unilateral effects allegations, with bodog sports betting app effects playing at most a supporting role. This could be due to the popularization of merger simulation and other methodologies to estimate unilateral effects and, until recently, the lack of similar quantitative tools for bodog sports betting app effects.
Coauthors Nathan Miller of Georgetown University and Kate Maxwell Koegel and Joseph Podwol of Cornerstone Research discuss two main points in this article. First, economic theory does not always justify the bundling of bodog sports betting app and unilateral effects allegations; in some cases, market or merger characteristics may cut against one theory of harm while supporting the other. Second, by leveraging new methodologies for simulating mergers with bodog sports betting app effects, agencies and antitrust practitioners can now evaluate certain classes of mergers where bodog sports betting app effects are present using the same quantitative rigor that is commonplace for unilateral effects analyses. The authors discuss the conceptual framework behind these new methodologies, the settings where these bodog sports betting app effects merger simulations are expected to work well, and the types of evidence needed to support them.
This article was published in Competition Policy International’s Antitrust Chronicle in July 2023.
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