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June 3, 2025

Lessons From Empirical Work on Market Dynamics

Ariel Pakes surveys advances in dynamic market analysis since the mid-1990s, highlighting how empirical tools have evolved beyond static frameworks. Using telecommunications deregulation and Intel’s Core 2 Duo launch, he shows that productivity reallocation and rapid product repositioning (often ignored in merger analysis) can dramatically alter market outcomes. Traditional dynamic models assuming perfect information became...
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