Plausibly Exogenous [1192] - Merge Review (05/08/2023)
LHS Variable
Antitrust reviews of merger transactions
RHS Variable
Political process
Source of Exogenous Variation
Shocks to firms’ judiciary committee representation using plausibly exogenous departures from the judiciary committees
- Mehta, Srinivasan, and Zhao (2019), “The Politics of M&A Antitrust”