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Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership
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Many natural competitors are jointly held by a small set of large institutional investors. In the U.S. airline industry, taking common ownership into account implies increases in market concentration that are 10 times larger than what is presumed likely to enhance market power by antitrust authorities. Within-route changes in common ownership concentration robustly correlate with route-level changes in ticket prices.
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“Fichtner, Heemskerk, and Garcia-Bernardo (2016) calculate that the combined holdings of BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street make them the largest investor of 88% of all firms in the S&P 500.”
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The Conclusion (p. 25) states that BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, taken together, constitute the largest shareholder in 88 percent of S&P 500 firms. This directly supports the attributed calculation. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“Thus, the average MHHI delta in the airline industry generated by common ownership in 2014Q4 implies increases in concentration that are more than 10 times higher than the threshold that would likely generate antitrust concerns according to the guidelines, if consequentially applied to MHHI.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 4.3 Quantifying Economic Incentives Using the MHHI
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“Similarly, going from the 25th to the 75th percentile increases prices by 4.3%.”
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“Going from the 10th to the 90th percentile of routes by MHHI delta indicates an 8.2% increase in fares.”
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“The stark increase in MHHI delta in 2009 coincides with BlackRock's acquisition of Barclays Global Investors that we will later use in one of our identification strategies.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 4.3 Quantifying Economic Incentives Using the MHHI
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“the same fund family is often the single largest shareholder of several firms in the same industry, with similarly diversified investors following suit.”
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“The correlation between the MHHI and the HHI is 0.87.”
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“We also show in several placebo tests that variation in MHHI delta driven by changes in ownership by shareholders with little effective control does not correlate with price changes.”
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“If this theory is correct, an instrumented version of the above regression should produce higher estimates of β, which is a hypothesis we later test and find support for.”
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“are more than ten times larger than what the FTC/DOJ 2010 horizontal merger guidelines presume”
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“A long theoretical literature in industrial organization predicts that partial common ownership of natural competitors by the same investors can reduce firms' incentives to compete”
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The Conclusions (page unavailable) explain that shareholders invested across firms want each firm to account for effects on other firms’ value. The paper identifies competitive actions that reduce industry profits and says accounting for those effects could make collusion easier, supporting the claim that common ownership can reduce incentives to compete. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“This effect of common ownership alone is similar in magnitude and comes on top of the effect of the traditional HHI measure of market concentration as well as other commonly used controls.”
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“and find that the effects are stronger for larger markets and for more concentrated markets.”
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“we find that the results are driven by the top-ranked shareholders at each firm, and by long-term shareholders.”
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“The average MHHI delta was around 1,400 at the beginning of the period, declined to around 1,000 in 2006-2007 when concentrated owners acquired relatively large stakes in the industry amid its low profitability, and then increased to about 2,500 in 2014.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 4.3 Quantifying Economic Incentives Using the MHHI
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“We also document significant effects from both firm-level and market-level variation in common ownership over time”
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“Note that American Airlines' top-seven shareholders (who jointly control 49.55% of the stock) are also among the top-10 investors of Southwest Airlines and various other competitors.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 4.2 Data on Airline Ownership
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“In turn, each of Southwest's largest six shareholders is also among the top-10 shareholders of American and Delta, and five of them are among the top-10 holders of United as well.”
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“The coefficients on the control variables have the expected signs: a larger number of nonstop competitors, Southwest's and other LCC's nonstop presence are all associated with lower fares.”
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“Untabulated, the average fraction of institutional ownership is 72%; the median is 81%.”
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“The effect for the average or the four periods is positive and highly statistically significant, with a coefficient of 0.542, which is markedly higher than the effects estimated in panel regressions.”
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“Similarly, the coefficient on the carrier-level MHHI delta is statistically significant and large; it ranges from 0.91 to 1.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 5.5 What Else Can We Learn About the Mechanism?
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“Generally speaking, disregarding control rights by shareholders below the top five only slightly attenuates the point estimate, and does not affect statistical significance: the”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 5.3.1 Effect of Common Ownership by Shareholder Rank
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“The coefficient on the average carrier-level MHHI delta of other carriers is positive but not statistically significant.”
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“We find that the estimated coefficient of MHHI delta is lower than in the baseline but still highly statistically significant, suggesting that some, but not all, of the baseline effects derive from route-level variation.”
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“Table 1 makes clear that much common ownership is driven by large institutional investors, and specifically by large mutual fund families.”
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“The effect of MHHI delta on fares is positive and statistically significant in most years and similar in magnitude in almost all years, but the effect of MHHI delta is slightly more volatile.”
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“The coefficient on the HHI ranges from -0.496 to -0.583, whereas the coefficient on MHHI delta ranges from -0.665 to -0.213 in the most saturated specification.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 5.2.3 Effect of Common Ownership Concentration on Passenger Volume
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“The same is true for the Ranked-1-or-2 specifications.”
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“However, the effect of the MHHI delta remains significant and the estimated coefficients are almost unchanged.”
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“Table C.7 shows that the coefficient on the route-level MHHI delta is highly statistically significant but the point estimate is lower than in the baseline estimates.”
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“By contrast, BGI also held a large stake in American Airlines before the merger, but BlackRock did not.As a result, merging BlackRock and BGIs equity portfolios had no effect on American's ownership structure.”
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“The effect of MHHI delta is statistically significant for all market size percentiles, except the very smallest and the very largest markets, for which the error bands become very wide.”
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“Specifications (4) to ( 6) are analogous to specifications (1) to ( 3), but aggregated at the market level instead of at the market-carrier level.We find qualitatively similar results, but the coefficients of both the MHHI delta and the HHI are higher.”
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“In all specifications, both the HHI and the MHHI delta have a negative and significant effect on market passengers, although the mag-nitude of the coefficients is less stable across specifications than in the price regressions.”
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“The trend changes after the announcement of the acquisition, and the coefficients are significantly positive for most periods after the completion of the acquisition.”
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“Whereas the difference between treatment and control fluctuates around zero to some extent during the pre-period, the overall trend before the announcement is flat.”
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“We find a positive and economically sizable but not statistically significant effect of the change in MHHI delta on the change in log average airfares in 2010Q1, 2011Q1 and 2013Q1, and positive and statistically significant coefficients for 2012Q1, and 2014Q1.”
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“Untabulated regressions with three leads and lags of the MHHI deltas and the HHI indicate that the leads of both MHHI delta and HHI are jointly insignificant, whereas the lags are jointly highly statistically significant.”
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“We find that the coefficient on the route-level continues to be statistically significant, but again lower than in the baseline.”
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“MHHI delta, either in discrete or continuous version, is a strong instrument for the actual change in the MHHI delta.Specifically, the F-stats from weak identification tests range from 59 to 290.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > IV Design
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“For example, Barclays was the fifth-largest and BlackRock was the 17th-largest shareholder of Airtran Airways in 2009Q1, but a hypothetically combined BlackRock-BGI entity would have been the second-largest shareholder of the firm in 2009Q1, and correspondingly much more powerful.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 5.2.2 Using Variation from the BlackRock-BGI Acquisition Background on BlackRock's Acquisition of Barclays Global Investors
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“Table 5 shows that the coefficients of lags of MHHI delta are correlated with prices, whereas the coefficients on leads of MHHI delta are not significantly different from zero.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 5.2.1 Panel Regressions with Leads and Lags of MHHI delta and HHI
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“Table 4 specification (6) shows that the effect of the carrier-route-level common ownership measure is positive and statistically significant at the 1% level, but the t-stats are lower than those in the baseline specification for the MHHI delta, as expected.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 5.4 Robustness to the Mode of Competition
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“MHHI delta (Top 1 Shareholder) 0.0717*** 0.0889*** (0.0220) (0.0198)”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > Dependent Variable: Log(Market Passengers)
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“MHHI delta (Shareholders Ranked Below Top 10) -0.0436 -0.0312 (0.0314) (0.0275)”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > Dependent Variable: Log(Average Fare) Market-carrier level
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“MHHI delta 0.0383 0.156*** 0.134*** 0.177*** 0.188*** 0.252*** (0.0711) (0.0404) (0.0350) (0.0578) (0.0412) (0.0488)”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > (continued). Effect of Common Ownership on Airline Ticket Prices: IV Regressions Using Discrete Treatment: Second Stage.
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“| Share AA × Share US in 2009Q1 | 0.437** | 0.338 | 0.821*** | 0.831*** | 1.304*** | 0.705*** |”
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“MHHI delta (Top 10 Shareholders) 0.149*** 0.198*** (0.0373) (0.0352)”
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“Correlation Between HHI and MHHI delta: -0.69”
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“| MHHI delta | 0.110 | 0.104 | 0.0452 | 0.181* | 0.159** | 0.0802 |”
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“| Change in MHHI delta 2009Q1-Post | 0.193 | 0.256 | 0.816*** | 0.413 | 0.963*** | 0.542*** |”
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“| MHHI delta -Lag | 0.159** | 0.170*** | 0.161*** | 0.178** 0.177*** | 0.162*** |”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > Dependent Variable: Log(Average Fare)
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“Change in MHHI delta 2009Q1-Post 0.142 0.199 0.765*** 0.357 0.824*** 0.462** (0.151) (0.275) (0.196) (0.279) (0.234) (0.186)”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > (continued). Effect of Common Ownership on Airline Ticket Prices: IV Regressions Using Discrete Treatment: Second Stage.
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“| HHI -Lag | 0.218*** 0.220*** | 0.182*** | 0.274*** 0.256*** | 0.214*** |”
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“MHHI delta (Top 3 Shareholders) 0.114*** 0.145*** (0.0333) (0.0310)”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > Dependent Variable: Log(Market Passengers)
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“Treatment (Discrete) 0.0871*** 0.0492*** 0.0716*** 0.0534*** 0.0681*** 0.0659*** (0.00511) (0.00642) (0.00661) (0.00639) (0.00904) (0.00599)”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > B.2 Variable Definitions
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“| Share UA × Share CO in 2009Q1 | 0.120 | 1.033*** | 1.166*** | 1.642*** | 1.718*** | 1.092*** |”
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“| Share FL × Share WN in 2009Q1 | -0.0478 | 0.222 | 1.293*** | 0.823*** | 1.236*** | 0.647*** |”
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“We find that when firms have reduced incentives to compete due to common ownership, prices are higher and output is lower.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 7 Conclusion
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“MHHI delta (Top 5 Shareholders) 0.136*** 0.173*** (0.0368) (0.0340)”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > Dependent Variable: Log(Market Passengers)
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“Change in MHHI delta 2009Q1-Post 0.142 0.199 0.765*** 0.357 0.824*** 0.462** (0.151) (0.275) (0.196) (0.279) (0.234) (0.186)”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > (continued). Effect of Common Ownership on Airline Ticket Prices: IV Regressions Using Discrete Treatment: Second Stage.
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“Correlation Between HHI and MHHI: 0.87”
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“No study prior to the present one has examined effects of common ownership on product prices.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 2 Related Literature
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“Theory thus predicts that common ownership implies reduced incentives to compete, pushes product markets toward monopolistic outcomes, and implies a deadweight loss for the economy and particularly adverse consequences for consumers.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 1 Introduction
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“A literature in finance and industrial organization, reviewed above, predicts that shareholder diversification can lead to lessened competition in portfolio firms' product markets.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 3 Hypothesis Development
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“highly diversified mutual fund families and other institutional investors now hold a high (70%-80%, ICI, 2015) and increasing share of US publicly traded firms.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 1 Introduction
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“Theory thus predicts that common ownership implies reduced incentives to compete, pushes product markets toward monopolistic outcomes, and implies a deadweight loss for the economy and particularly adverse consequences for consumers.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 1 Introduction
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“One should thus expect less competition, compared to the standard model, to the extent shareholders are diversified across natural competitors, and to the extent portfolio firms act in their diversified shareholders' interest.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 3 Hypothesis Development
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“We then provide a large number of placebo and robustness tests to examine the empirical validity of a large number of concerns regarding functional form, market definition, confounding mergers and bankruptcies, reverse causality, the assumption that control is proportional in the fraction of votes held, and the model of competition.”
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“In our baseline result we address various of such omitted variable concerns with explicit controls and a large number of fixed effects.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 5.1 Panel Regressions of Product Prices on Common Ownership
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“These are non-trivial changes in market concentration, for which we can reasonably expect to find increases in market prices.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > Difference-in-Differences Design
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“Moreover, US airline stocks of course comprised only a small share of BGI's portfolio.This fact makes it unlikely that airlines were pivotal in BlackRock's decision to acquire BGI, much less route-level variation in expected ticket price changes, thus alleviating reverse causality concerns.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 5.2.2 Using Variation from the BlackRock-BGI Acquisition Background on BlackRock's Acquisition of Barclays Global Investors
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“Indeed, any such notion is neither implied by our empirical results thus far, nor do the results depend on it, nor does the underlying theory suggest collusive behavior.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 6.1 The Indirect Channel: Doing Nothing
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“Indeed, any such notion is neither implied by our empirical results thus far, nor do the results depend on it, nor does the underlying theory suggest collusive behavior.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 6.1 The Indirect Channel: Doing Nothing
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“However, the claim that common ownership causes higher prices is very different from the claim that any shareholder actively and consciously pursues an anticompetitive agenda, communicates with managers of portfolio firms to compete less aggressively against each other, or even incites collusion.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 6.1 The Indirect Channel: Doing Nothing
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“In addition, the findings illustrate why the anti-competitive effects of common ownership have welfare implications: the deadweight loss to the economy comes from reduced output that accompanies higher consumer prices.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 5.2.3 Effect of Common Ownership Concentration on Passenger Volume
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“We find that the estimated coefficient of MHHI delta is lower than in the baseline but still highly statistically significant, suggesting that some, but not all, of the baseline effects derive from route-level variation.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 5.5 What Else Can We Learn About the Mechanism?
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“These results indicate that increasing demand and reverse causality are unlikely to be the driver of the price effects.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 5.2.3 Effect of Common Ownership Concentration on Passenger Volume
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“Nevertheless, several other significant limitations remain at this stage, driven by the potential endogeneity of both market shares and ownership, as well as various forms of model misspecification.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 5.1.4 Limitations of the Baseline Analysis
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“We conclude that the baseline results are not driven by an unusual sub-period within the sample in general or by bankruptcies in particular.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 5.1.3 Robustness of the Baseline Analysis
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“Lundin (2016) shows that joint profit maximization of commonly owned Swedish power plants best matches the data on maintenance decisions, and hence output, compared to unilateral profit maximization.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 5.6 External Validity
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Lundin (2016) source
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“However, since making our study available online, similar results have been found in other industries and with other econometric methods, which may enhance confidence in the external validity of our results.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 5.6 External Validity
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“We offer three sets of tests to examine and reject the hypothesis that the baseline results are due to chances in ticket pricing causing changes in ownership, rather than the other way around.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 5.2 Responses to Reverse Causality Concerns
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“The bottom line is that the effect is generally weaker in markets and at times affected by bankruptcies, consistent with shareholders not being in control during such times.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 5.1.3 Robustness of the Baseline Analysis
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“The DOJ/FTC Horizontal Merger Guidelines state that”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > Difference-in-Differences Design
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- Not matchedcites DOJ/FTC Horizontal Merger Guidelines
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“Indeed, any such notion is neither implied by our empirical results thus far, nor do the results depend on it, nor does the underlying theory suggest collusive behavior.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 6.1 The Indirect Channel: Doing Nothing
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“As an alternative gauge of economic significance, note that the average implied MHHI deltais about 91 HHI points; our estimates thus indicate that ticket prices on the average U.S. airline route increased by about 0.5% as a direct result of the BlackRock-BGI acquisition.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > IV Design
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“Thus-caused declines in stock prices would have obvious direct consequences for managerial incentives.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 6.3.2 Incentives
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“These results suggest both a large deadweight loss (i.e.decreased efficiency of the economy) and a large transfer from consumers to producers due to common ownership.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 7 Conclusion
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“Institutional Shareholder Services recommends to support the activist's campaign, but BlackRock, Vanguard, and StateStreet cast decisive votes against.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 6.4 Summary
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Schmalz (2015)
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“For example, increased payouts imply reduced investment (at least in the long-run), but reduced investment in production capacity can imply less competitive product markets.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 6.2 Effects of Influence on Corporate Financial Decisions
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“F-stat (Weak Identification Test) 316.9 47.58 127.4 75.54 59.82 125”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > B.2 Variable Definitions
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- Rests on an assumption: The pre-period 2009Q1 is before the Barclays BGI acquisition by BlackRock was announced.
- Rests on an assumption: The counterfactual MHHI delta combining the holdings of Barclays and BlackRock represents the change in common ownership caused by the acquisition.
In the paper
“Kwon (2016) challenges existing theory and empirical findings using alternative samples, industry definitions, and empirical specifications, claiming qualitatively opposite results on pay-performance sensitivities, and documents a link between common ownership and the explicit use of relative performance in compensation contracts.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 6.3.3 Vote
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- Not matchedcites Kwon (2016)
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“Director candidates may be able to credibly signal for which type of competitive strategy they stand.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 6.3.3 Vote
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“Schmalz (2015) provides a case study that illustrates all four elements.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 6.4 Summary
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Schmalz (2015)
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“Antón, Ederer, Giné, and Schmalz (2016) provide panel and IV evidence that management pay becomes less sensitive to performance relative to industry rivals when the industry becomes more”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > Dependent Variable: Log(Average Fare)
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Antón, Ederer, Giné, and Schmalz (2016) source
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“A caveat is that explicit incentives are only in place as long as the manager is not fired.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 6.3.2 Incentives
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“The first two goals benefit shareholders.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 7 Conclusion
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“Whereas this paper emphasizes anti-competitive effects of common ownership, in theory, common ownership can also have efficiency-enhancing effects.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 7 Conclusion
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“We find that voice, incentives, and vote -as well as the simple omission to push for more aggressive competition -can plausibly implement the anticompetitive incentives of investors that hold large stakes in natural competitors.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 6.4 Summary
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“In theory, the additional concentration that results from cumulating many small common ownership interests should get reflected in higher prices.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 7 Conclusion
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“Our results can be viewed as challenging this assumption, and thus make an empirical case for taking seriously the theoretical insight (perhaps most clearly stated in Hart, 1979) that shareholders do not agree on profit maximization as an objective when firms are not price takers.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 7 Conclusion
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hart, 1979 source
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“However, CEO turnover also does not feature strong elements of relative performance evaluation, and is therefore sensitive to industry performance (Jenter and Kanaan, forthcoming).”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 6.3.2 Incentives
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- Not matchedcites Jenter and Kanaan, forthcoming
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“An activist investor with concentrated holdings in a target voices a demand for greater efforts at increasing market share vis-à-vis the target's competitors, as well as a greater use of relative performance evaluation to give management appropriate incentives to maximize the target's value, among other things.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 6.4 Summary
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- Not matchedcites Schmalz (2015)
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“We also control for potential confounding events using the implied HHI delta in the route from the DL-NW, UA-CO, AA-US, and FL-WN mergers, the share in the route of AA in 2009Q1, and the change in log per capita income in the route from the start of the Great Recession until 2009Q1, each interacted with year-quarter fixed effects.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 5: Effect of Common Ownership on Airline Ticket Prices: Distributed-Lags Regressions.
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“By contrast, the decline in product market competition implied by an improved implementation of the first two goals is a social cost that has thus far been largely ignored.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 7 Conclusion
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“F-stat (Weak Identification Test) 290.4 58.88 117.3 69.79 56.78 121”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > B.2 Variable Definitions
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- Rests on an assumption: The pre-period 2009Q1 is before the Barclays BGI acquisition by BlackRock was announced.
- Rests on an assumption: The counterfactual MHHI delta combining the holdings of Barclays and BlackRock represents the change in common ownership caused by the acquisition.
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“The effects of shareholder engagement on product market outcomes can therefore be very subtle.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 6.2 Effects of Influence on Corporate Financial Decisions
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“empirical results indicative (but of course not conclusive) of a causal link between common ownership and higher product prices.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 7 Conclusion
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“The authors focused on partial ownership acquisitions in competitors (cross-ownership), but their model can be applied to a situation in which the same investors hold shares in natural competitors (common ownership).”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > Dependent Variable: Log(Average Fare)
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The authors state this as an assumption.
Institutions with less than 0.5% of shares have no weight in the objective function of the firm.
“Doing so amounts to assuming that institutions with less than 0.5% have no weight in the objective function of the firm; weconsider variations later.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Wells Fargo's CEO understands that it is not in his largest shareholders' best interest to compete aggressively for market share against Bank of America, even without explicit communication.
“it seems reasonable to assume that Wells Fargo's CEO understands that it is not in his largest shareholders' best interest to compete aggressively for market share against Bank of America, even without explicit communication with either shareholders or competitors' managers.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Top management teams of the largest US airlines learned about major shifts in the ownership structure of the industry even without being personally informed by Warren Buffett.
“We find it equally likely that the top management teams of the United States' largest airlines also learned about major shifts in the ownership structure of the industry even without being personally informed by Warren Buffett.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Bank of America and JP Morgan are well-informed about these interests.
“We feel equally assured that not only Bank of America, but also JP Morgan is well-informed about these interests”
The paper relies on this without support.
The fund families' incentives are primarily determined by the value of their total assets under management.
“the fund families' incentives, which -consistent with the incentives of their investors -are primarily determined by the value of their total assets under management.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Each route can be considered as a separate market.
“each route can be considered as a separate market.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Control is proportional in the fraction of votes held.
“the assumption that control is proportional in the fraction of votes held”
The paper relies on this without support.
MHHI delta is a reduced-form measure of reduced incentives to compete due to common ownership.
“we do not estimate the model, but use MHHI delta as a reduced-form measure of reduced incentives to compete due to common ownership.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Smaller shareholders have no significant say in corporate strategy.
“In the baseline specifications reported previously, we calculated the MHHI delta using all shareholders larger than 0.5%, assuming that smaller shareholders have no significant say in corporate strategy.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The cross-sectional distribution across US airline routes in the implied increase in common ownership from a hypothetical pre-merger combination of BlackRock and BGI's equity portfolios is uncorrelated with errors of the ticket price regression, conditional on controls.
“More formally, the exclusion restriction is that the cross-sectional distribution across US airlines routes in the implied increase in common ownership from a hypothetical, pre-merger combination of BLK and BGI's equity portfolios is uncorrelated with errors of the ticket price regression, conditional on controls.”
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In specifications estimating effects by shareholder rank, control is assumed to be exercised only by the largest 10, largest 5, largest 3, or single largest shareholder, with zero control assigned to all shareholders outside the top N ranks.
“To further explore this idea, we now estimate specifications that assume control, for a given carrier and quarter, only by the largest 10, largest 5, largest 3, and only the single largest shareholder in the calculation of the MHHI delta.These specifications assign zero control to all shareholders outside the top N ranks, but keeps ownership rights for all shareholders.”
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In the placebo test, only shareholders ranked below the top 10 are assumed to control the firm, with zero control assigned to the top 10 shareholders.
“As a complement to the top-shareholder analysis, we now run a placebo test which does the opposite: we calculate the MHHI delta as if only shareholders ranked below top 10 controlled the firm.That is, for each carrier at each period in time, we assign zero control to the top 10 shareholders, and then re-calculate the MHHI deltas accordingly.”
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Shareholder control is proportional to the number of shares they own.
“In our calculation of the MHHI deltas, we have assumed thus far that shareholder control is proportional to the number of shares they own.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Increasing market share may require costly managerial effort.
“To see why doing nothing can be a sufficient mechanism by which common ownership can cause higher prices, assume that increasing market share may require costly managerial effort.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Firms internalize externalities imposed on commonly owned firms.
“Freeman (2016) finds an effect of common ownership on the longevity of customer-supplier relationships, which corroborates the assumption of the various theoretical models motivating our empirical analysis that firms internalize externalities imposed on commonly owned firms.”
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The past three decades have witnessed a shift from the low-common-ownership to the high-common-ownership equilibrium, because diversified institutions have increasingly crowded out concentrated owners as the most powerful shareholders of firms.
“The past three decades have witnessed a shift from the low-common-ownership to the high-common-ownership equilibrium, because diversified institutions have increasingly crowded out concentrated owners as the most powerful shareholders of firms.”
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The merger of two large asset managers occurred for reasons unrelated to expected route-level differences in US airline ticket prices.
“We then exploit variation in common ownership concentration generated by the merger of two large asset managers that arguably occurred for reasons unrelated to expected route-level differences in US airline ticket prices”
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The counterfactual world in which firms are separately owned, or in which firms entirely ignore their owners' anti-competitive incentives caused by common ownership, is a valid comparison for estimating the effect of common ownership on airline ticket prices.
“compared to a counterfactual world in which firms are separately owned, or in which firms entirely ignore their owners' anti-competitive incentives caused by common ownership.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The control variables included in the regressions are sufficient to address confounding from the listed events and other factors.
“We also control for potential confounding events using the implied HHI delta in the route from the DL-NW, UA-CO, AA-US, and FL-WN mergers, the share in the route of AA in 2009Q1, and the change in log per capita income in the route from the start of the Great Recession until 2009Q1, each interacted with year-quarter fixed effects.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The pre-period 2009Q1 is before the Barclays BGI acquisition by BlackRock was announced.
“The pre-period is 2009Q1 (the quarter before the Barclays BGI acquisition by BlackRock was announced).”
The paper relies on this without support.
The counterfactual MHHI delta combining the holdings of Barclays and BlackRock represents the change in common ownership caused by the acquisition.
“we calculate a counterfactual MHHI delta in 2009Q1 combining the holdings of Barclays and BlackRock”
The paper relies on this without support.
The Thomson-Reuters dataset is incomplete and features various other inaccuracies.
“The Thomson-Reuters dataset is well-known to be incomplete and feature various other inaccuracies.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Capacity pre-commitments typically happen about one year before the flight.
“which typically happen about one year before the flight”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The paper abstracts away from frictions associated with imperfect vertical integration.
“We thus abstract away from frictions associated with imperfect vertical integration(Forbes and Lederman, 2009, 2010).”
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In the paper
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > IV Design
“The effect for the average or the four periods is positive and highly statistically significant, with a coefficient of 0.542”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > IV Design
“We use 2010Q1, 2011Q1, 2012Q1, 2013Q1, and 2014Q1 as the post-periods (we follow the literature by using the same quarter as the pre-period to rule out effects of seasonality), and then an average for the five quarters 2010Q1-2014Q1.”
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§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > 4.2 Data on Airline Ownership
“To illustrate the extent of common ownership in the present-day US airline industry, we provide the top-10 shareholders and their ownership percentage as of the fourth quarter of 2016 for a sample of airlines in Table 1.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > Table 1: Illustrative Cases of Within-industry Common Ownership Links.
“This table shows the largest (institutional and non-institutional) beneficial owners and corresponding stakes for an illustrative sample of US publicly traded natural competitors as of 2016Q2.”
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§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > IV Design
“Specifically, the F-stats from weak identification tests range from 59 to 290.”
§ ANTI-COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF COMMON OWNERSHIP > B.2 Variable Definitions
“F-stat (Weak Identification Test) 316.9 47.58 127.4 75.54 59.82 125”
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Metadata
- Authors
- AZAR, J., SCHMALZ, M. C., & TECU, I.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- American Bar Association (US)
- Venue
- The Journal of Finance
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2018-08
- Volume
- 73
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1513-1565
- ISSN
- 0022-1082 (ISSN-L)
- 1540-6261
- OpenAlex
- W2887416572
- Cited by
- 980
- References
- 159
- Citations by year
- 2026: 124 · 2025: 183 · 2024: 145 · 2023: 109 · 2022: 90 · 2021: 98 · 2020: 91 · 2019: 72 · 2018: 43
- FWCI
- 222.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.iese.edu
- Licence
- Locations
- The Journal of Finance (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Finance › Corporate Finance and Governance
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Merger and Competition Analysis
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Finance › Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
- Keywords
- collective ownership, institutional investors, competition law, market concentration, airline industry, ticket prices, asset managers, diversification, corporate governance, product market competition
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