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Charles Hodgson

Charles Hodgson is Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. He was previously a Postdoctoral Associate at the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale. Hodgson’s research interests are in industrial organization and applied microeconomics. His current research focuses on search, learning, and matching problems faced by economic agents in settings including natural resource exploration, consumer search, and organ allocation.
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How Regulation Can Target the Negative Effects of Vertical Foreclosure

Charles Hodgson
In a new NBER working paper, Charles Hodgson and Shilong Sun show that vertical integration is usually good for consumers, except when firms have both the ability and the incentive to foreclose rivals.  They use the heavily integrated Chinese Film Industry to show that targeting enforcement to the markets where harm is predictable makes it possible to effectively regulate harmful cases and protect consumers.

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