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+ Name: mergeron
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+ Version: 2024.739105.2
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+ Summary: Merger Policy Analysis using Python
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+ License: MIT
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+ Keywords: merger policy analysis,merger guidelines,merger screening,policy presumptions,concentration standards,upward pricing pressure,GUPPI
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+ Author: Murthy Kambhampaty
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+ Author-email: smk@capeconomics.com
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+ Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/x-rst
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+ mergeron: Merger Policy Analysis using Python
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+ =============================================
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+ Analyze the sets of mergers conforming to concentration and diversion ratio bounds. Analyze intrinsic enforcement rates, and intrinsic clearance rates, under concentration, diversion ratio, GUPPI, CMCR, and IPR bounds using generated data with specified distributions of market shares, price-cost margins, firm counts, and prices, optionally imposing restrictions implied by statutory filing thresholds and/or Bertrand-Nash oligopoly with MNL demand. Download and analyze merger investigations data published by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in various reports on extended merger investigations (Second Requests) during 1996 to 2011.
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+ Here, enforcement rates derived with merger enforcement as being exogenous to firm conduct are defined as intrinsic enforcement rates, and similarly intrinsic clearance rates. Depending on the merger enforcement regime, or merger control regime, intrinsic enforcement rates may also not be the complement of intrinsic clearance rates, i.e, it is not necessarily true that the intrinsic clearance rate estimate for a given enforcement regime is 1 minus the intrinsic enforcement rate. In contrast, observed enforcement rates reflect the deterrent effects of merger enforcement on firm conduct as well as the effects of merger screening on the level of enforcement; and, by definition, the observed clearance rate is 1 minus the observed enforcement rate.
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+ Introduction
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+ ------------
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+ Module :code:`.core.guidelines_boundaries` includes classes for specifying concentration bounds (:code:`..core.guidelines_boundaries.ConcentrationBoundary`) and diversion-ratio bounds (:code:`..core.guidelines_boundaries.DiversionRatioBoundary`), with automatic generation of boundary (as an array of share-pairs) and area. This module also includes a function for generating plots of concentration and diversion-ratio boundaries, and functions for mapping GUPPI standards to concentration (ΔHHI) standards, and vice-versa.
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+ Module :code:`.gen.data_generation` includes the :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample` which provides for a rich specification of shares and diversion ratios (:code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.share_spec`), margins (:code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.pcm_spec`, prices (:code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.price_spec`), and HSR filing requirements (:code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.hsr_filing_test_type`), and with methods for, (i) generating sample data (:code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.generate_sample`), and (ii) estimating enforcement or clearance rates under specified enforcement regimes given a method of aggregating diversion ratio or GUPPI estimates for the firms in a merger (:code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.estimate_enf_counts`). While the latter populate the properties, :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.data`
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+ and :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.enf_counts`, respectively, the underlying methods for generating standalone :code:`MarketDataSample` and :code:`UPPTestCounts` objects are included in the class definition, with helper functions defined in the modules, :code:`.gen.data_generation_functions` and :code:`.gen.upp_tests`. Notably, market shares are generated for a sample of markets with firm-count distributed as specified in :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.ShareSpec.firm_count_weights`, with defaults as discussed below (also see, :code:`.gen.ShareSpec.firm_count_weights`.
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+ By default, merging-firm shares are drawn with uniform distribution over the space :math:`s_1 + s_2 \leqslant 1` for an unspecified number of firms. Alternatively, shares may be drawn from the Dirichlet distribution, with specified shape parameters (see :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.ShareSpec`, and, specifically, :code:`.gen.SHRDistribution`). When drawing shares from the Dirichlet distribution, the user passes, using :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.ShareSpec.firm_count_weights`, a vector of weights specifying the frequency distribution over sequential firm counts, e.g., :code:`[133, 184, 134, 52, 32, 10, 12, 4, 3]` to specify shares drawn from Dirichlet distributions with 2 to 10 pre-merger firms distributed as in data for FTC merger investigations during 1996--2003 (See, for example, Table 4.1 of `FTC, Horizontal Merger Investigations Data, Fiscal Years 1996--2003 (Revised: August 31, 2004) <https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/reports/horizontal-merger-investigation-data-fiscal-years-1996-2003/040831horizmergersdata96-03.pdf>`_). If :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.ShareSpec.firm_count_weights` is not explicitly assigned a value when defining :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.ShareSpec`, the default values is used, which results in a sample of markets with 2 to 7 firms with relative frequency in inverse proportion to firm-count, with 2-firm markets being 6 times as likely to be drawn as 7-firm markets.
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+ Recapture rates can be specified as, "proportional", "inside-out", "outside-in" (see :code:`.RECForm`. The "inside-out" specification (:code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.ShareSpec.recapture_form`:code:` = `:code:`.RECForm.INOUT`) results in recapture ratios consistent with merging-firms' in-market shares and a default recapture rate. The "outside-in" specification (:code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.ShareSpec.recapture_form`:code:` = `:code:`.RECForm.INOUT`) yields diversion ratios from purchase probabilities drawn at random for :math:`N+1` goods, from which are derived market shares and recapture rates for the :math:`N` goods in the putative market (see, :code:`.gen.ShareSpec`). The "outside-in" specification is invalid when the distribution of markets over firm-count is unspecified, i.e., when :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.ShareSpec.dist_type`:code:` ==`:code:`.gen.ShareDistributions.UNI`, thus raising a :code:`ValueError` exception. The "proportional" form (:code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.ShareSpec.recapture_form`:code:` = `:code:`.RECForm.FIXED`) is often used in the literature, as an approximation to the "inside-out" form. See, for example, Coate (2011).
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+ Price-cost-margins may be specified as having uniform distribution, Beta distribution (including a bounded Beta distribution with specified mean and variance), or an empirical distribution (see, :code:`.gen.PCMSpec`). The empirical margin distribution is based on resampling margin data published by Prof. Damodaran of NYU Stern School of Business (see Notes), using an estimated Gaussian KDE. The second merging firm's margin (:code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.PCMSpec.firm2_pcm_constraint`) may be specified as symmetric, i.i.d., or subject to equilibrium conditions for (profit-maximization in) Bertrand-Nash oligopoly with MNL demand (:code:`.gen.FM2Constraint`).
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+ Prices may be specified as symmetric or asymmetric, and in the latter case, the direction of correlation between merging firm prices, if any, can also be specified (see, :code:`.gen.PriceSpec`). Prices may also be defined by imposing cost symmetry on firms in the sample, with fixed unit marginal costs normalized to 1 unit, such that price equal :math:`1 / (1 - \pmb{m})`, where :math:`\pmb{m}` represents the array of margins for firms in the sample.
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+ The market sample may be restricted to mergers meeting the HSR filing requirement under two alternative approaches: in the one, the smaller of the two merging firms meets the lower HSR size threshold ($10 million, as adjusted) and the larger of the two merging firms meets the size test if it's share is no less than 10 times the share of the smaller firm. In the other, the :math:`n`-th firm's size is maintained as $10 million, as adjusted (see, :code:`.gen.SSZConstant`), and a merger meets the HSR filing test if either, (a.) the smaller merging firm is no smaller than the n-th firm and the larger merging firm is at 10-times as large as the n-th firm, or (b.) the smaller merging firm's market share is in excess of 10%; in effect this version of the test maintains that if the smaller merging firm's market share exceeds 10%, the value of the transaction exceeds $200 million, as adjusted, and the size-of-person test is eliminated (see, FTC (2008, p. 12); the above are simplifications of the statutory HSR filing requirements). The second assumption avoids the unfortunate assumption in the first that, within the resulting sample, the larger merging firm be at least 10 times as large as the smaller merging firm, as a consequence of the full definition of the HSR filing requirement.
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+ The full specification of a market sample is given in a :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample` object, including the above parameters. Data are drawn by invoking :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.generate_sample` which adds a :code:`data` property of class, :code:`.gen.MarketDataSample`. Enforcement or clearance counts are computed by invoking :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.estimate_enf_counts`, which adds an :code:`enf_counts` property of class :code:`.gen.UPPTestsCounts`. For fast, parallel generation of enforcement or clearance counts over large market data samples that ordinarily would exceed available limits on machine memory, the user can invoke the method :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.estimate_enf_counts` on a :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample` object without first invoking :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.generate_sample`. Note, however, that this strategy does not retain the market sample in memory in the interests of conserving memory and maintaining high performance (the user can specify that the market sample and enforcement statistics be stored to permanent storage; when saving to current PCIe NVMe storage, the performance penalty is slight, but can be considerable if saving to SATA storage).
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+ Enforcement statistics based on FTC investigations data and test data are printed to screen or rendered to LaTex files (for processing into publication-quality tables) using methods provided in :code:`.gen.enforcement_stats`.
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+ Programs demonstrating the use of this package are included in the sub-package, :code:`.demo`.
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+ This package includes a class, :code:`.core.pseudorandom_numbers.MulithreadedRNG` for generating random numbers with selected continuous distribution over specified parameters, and with CPU multithreading on machines with multiple virtual, logical, or physical CPU cores. This class is an adaptation from the documentation of the :code:`numpy` package, from the discussion on `multithreaded random-number generation <https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/random/multithreading.html>_`; the version included here permits selection of the distribution with pre-tests to catch and inform on common errors. To access these directly:
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+ Documentation for this package is in the form of the API Reference. Documentation for individual functions and classes is accessible within a python shell. For example:
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+ Coate, M. B. (2011). Benchmarking the upward pricing pressure model with Federal Trade
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+ Commission evidence. Journal of Competition Law & Economics, 7(4), 825--846. URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/joclec/nhr014.
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+ mergeron: Merger Policy Analysis using Python
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+ Analyze the sets of mergers conforming to concentration and diversion ratio bounds. Analyze intrinsic enforcement rates, and intrinsic clearance rates, under concentration, diversion ratio, GUPPI, CMCR, and IPR bounds using generated data with specified distributions of market shares, price-cost margins, firm counts, and prices, optionally imposing restrictions implied by statutory filing thresholds and/or Bertrand-Nash oligopoly with MNL demand. Download and analyze merger investigations data published by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in various reports on extended merger investigations (Second Requests) during 1996 to 2011.
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+ Introduction
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+ Module :code:`.core.guidelines_boundaries` includes classes for specifying concentration bounds (:code:`..core.guidelines_boundaries.ConcentrationBoundary`) and diversion-ratio bounds (:code:`..core.guidelines_boundaries.DiversionRatioBoundary`), with automatic generation of boundary (as an array of share-pairs) and area. This module also includes a function for generating plots of concentration and diversion-ratio boundaries, and functions for mapping GUPPI standards to concentration (ΔHHI) standards, and vice-versa.
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+ Module :code:`.gen.data_generation` includes the :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample` which provides for a rich specification of shares and diversion ratios (:code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.share_spec`), margins (:code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.pcm_spec`, prices (:code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.price_spec`), and HSR filing requirements (:code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.hsr_filing_test_type`), and with methods for, (i) generating sample data (:code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.generate_sample`), and (ii) estimating enforcement or clearance rates under specified enforcement regimes given a method of aggregating diversion ratio or GUPPI estimates for the firms in a merger (:code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.estimate_enf_counts`). While the latter populate the properties, :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.data`
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+ and :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.enf_counts`, respectively, the underlying methods for generating standalone :code:`MarketDataSample` and :code:`UPPTestCounts` objects are included in the class definition, with helper functions defined in the modules, :code:`.gen.data_generation_functions` and :code:`.gen.upp_tests`. Notably, market shares are generated for a sample of markets with firm-count distributed as specified in :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.ShareSpec.firm_count_weights`, with defaults as discussed below (also see, :code:`.gen.ShareSpec.firm_count_weights`.
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+ By default, merging-firm shares are drawn with uniform distribution over the space :math:`s_1 + s_2 \leqslant 1` for an unspecified number of firms. Alternatively, shares may be drawn from the Dirichlet distribution, with specified shape parameters (see :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.ShareSpec`, and, specifically, :code:`.gen.SHRDistribution`). When drawing shares from the Dirichlet distribution, the user passes, using :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.ShareSpec.firm_count_weights`, a vector of weights specifying the frequency distribution over sequential firm counts, e.g., :code:`[133, 184, 134, 52, 32, 10, 12, 4, 3]` to specify shares drawn from Dirichlet distributions with 2 to 10 pre-merger firms distributed as in data for FTC merger investigations during 1996--2003 (See, for example, Table 4.1 of `FTC, Horizontal Merger Investigations Data, Fiscal Years 1996--2003 (Revised: August 31, 2004) <https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/reports/horizontal-merger-investigation-data-fiscal-years-1996-2003/040831horizmergersdata96-03.pdf>`_). If :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.ShareSpec.firm_count_weights` is not explicitly assigned a value when defining :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.ShareSpec`, the default values is used, which results in a sample of markets with 2 to 7 firms with relative frequency in inverse proportion to firm-count, with 2-firm markets being 6 times as likely to be drawn as 7-firm markets.
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+ The full specification of a market sample is given in a :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample` object, including the above parameters. Data are drawn by invoking :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.generate_sample` which adds a :code:`data` property of class, :code:`.gen.MarketDataSample`. Enforcement or clearance counts are computed by invoking :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.estimate_enf_counts`, which adds an :code:`enf_counts` property of class :code:`.gen.UPPTestsCounts`. For fast, parallel generation of enforcement or clearance counts over large market data samples that ordinarily would exceed available limits on machine memory, the user can invoke the method :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.estimate_enf_counts` on a :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample` object without first invoking :code:`.gen.data_generation.MarketSample.generate_sample`. Note, however, that this strategy does not retain the market sample in memory in the interests of conserving memory and maintaining high performance (the user can specify that the market sample and enforcement statistics be stored to permanent storage; when saving to current PCIe NVMe storage, the performance penalty is slight, but can be considerable if saving to SATA storage).
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+
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+ Enforcement statistics based on FTC investigations data and test data are printed to screen or rendered to LaTex files (for processing into publication-quality tables) using methods provided in :code:`.gen.enforcement_stats`.
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+
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+ Programs demonstrating the use of this package are included in the sub-package, :code:`.demo`.
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+
32
+ This package includes a class, :code:`.core.pseudorandom_numbers.MulithreadedRNG` for generating random numbers with selected continuous distribution over specified parameters, and with CPU multithreading on machines with multiple virtual, logical, or physical CPU cores. This class is an adaptation from the documentation of the :code:`numpy` package, from the discussion on `multithreaded random-number generation <https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/random/multithreading.html>_`; the version included here permits selection of the distribution with pre-tests to catch and inform on common errors. To access these directly:
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+
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+ .. code-block:: python
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+
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+ import mergeron.core.pseudorandom_numbers as prng
37
+
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+ Documentation for this package is in the form of the API Reference. Documentation for individual functions and classes is accessible within a python shell. For example:
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+
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+ .. code-block:: python
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+
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+ import mergeron.core.market_sample as market_sample
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+
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+ help(market_sample.MarketSample)
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+
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+ .. rubric:: References
47
+
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+ .. _coate2011:
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+
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+ Coate, M. B. (2011). Benchmarking the upward pricing pressure model with Federal Trade
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+ Commission evidence. Journal of Competition Law & Economics, 7(4), 825--846. URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/joclec/nhr014.
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+
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+ .. _ftc_premerger_guide2:
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+
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+ FTC Premerger Notification Office. “To File or Not to File: When You Must File a Premerger Notification Report Form”. 2008 (September, revised). URL: https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/premerger-introductory-guides/guide2.pdf
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+ :target: https://python-poetry.org/
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+ :alt: Ruff
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+ :target: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff
65
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66
+ .. image:: https://www.mypy-lang.org/static/mypy_badge.svg
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+ :alt: Checked with mypy
68
+ :target: https://mypy-lang.org/
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+
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+ .. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg
71
+ :alt: License: MIT
72
+ :target: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
73
+
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ keywords = [
13
13
  "upward pricing pressure",
14
14
  "GUPPI",
15
15
  ]
16
- version = "2024.739104.1"
16
+ version = "2024.739105.2"
17
17
 
18
18
  # Classifiers list: https://pypi.org/classifiers/
19
19
  classifiers = [
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from numpy.typing import NDArray
9
9
 
10
10
  _PKG_NAME: str = Path(__file__).parent.stem
11
11
 
12
- VERSION = "2024.739104.1"
12
+ VERSION = "2024.739105.2"
13
13
 
14
14
  __version__ = VERSION
15
15
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ ArrayBIGINT: TypeAlias = NDArray[np.int64]
36
36
 
37
37
 
38
38
  @enum.unique
39
- class RECTypes(enum.StrEnum):
39
+ class RECForm(enum.StrEnum):
40
40
  """Recapture rate - derivation methods."""
41
41
 
42
42
  INOUT = "inside-out"
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import numpy as np
13
13
  from attrs import Attribute, field, frozen, validators
14
14
  from mpmath import mp, mpf # type: ignore
15
15
 
16
- from .. import VERSION, ArrayDouble, RECTypes, UPPAggrSelector # noqa: TID252
16
+ from .. import VERSION, ArrayDouble, RECForm, UPPAggrSelector # noqa: TID252
17
17
  from . import guidelines_boundary_functions as gbfn
18
18
 
19
19
  __version__ = VERSION
@@ -223,14 +223,14 @@ def _divr_value_validator(
223
223
 
224
224
  def _rec_spec_validator(
225
225
  _instance: DiversionRatioBoundary,
226
- _attribute: Attribute[RECTypes],
227
- _value: RECTypes,
226
+ _attribute: Attribute[RECForm],
227
+ _value: RECForm,
228
228
  /,
229
229
  ) -> None:
230
- if _value == RECTypes.OUTIN and _instance.recapture_rate:
230
+ if _value == RECForm.OUTIN and _instance.recapture_rate:
231
231
  raise ValueError(
232
232
  f"Invalid recapture specification, {_value!r}. "
233
- "You may consider specifying `mergeron.RECTypes.INOUT` here, and "
233
+ "You may consider specifying `mergeron.RECForm.INOUT` here, and "
234
234
  'assigning the default recapture rate as attribute, "recapture_rate" of '
235
235
  "this `DiversionRatioBoundarySpec` object."
236
236
  )
@@ -265,24 +265,24 @@ class DiversionRatioBoundary:
265
265
  kw_only=False, default=0.85, validator=validators.instance_of(float)
266
266
  )
267
267
 
268
- recapture_form: RECTypes | None = field(
268
+ recapture_form: RECForm | None = field(
269
269
  kw_only=True,
270
- default=RECTypes.INOUT,
270
+ default=RECForm.INOUT,
271
271
  validator=(
272
- validators.instance_of((type(None), RECTypes)),
272
+ validators.instance_of((type(None), RECForm)),
273
273
  _rec_spec_validator,
274
274
  ),
275
275
  )
276
276
  """
277
277
  The form of the recapture rate.
278
278
 
279
- When :attr:`mergeron.RECTypes.INOUT`, the recapture rate for
279
+ When :attr:`mergeron.RECForm.INOUT`, the recapture rate for
280
280
  he product having the smaller market-share is assumed to equal the default,
281
281
  and the recapture rate for the product with the larger market-share is
282
282
  computed assuming MNL demand. Fixed recapture rates are specified as
283
- :attr:`mergeron.RECTypes.FIXED`. (To specify that recapture rates be
283
+ :attr:`mergeron.RECForm.FIXED`. (To specify that recapture rates be
284
284
  constructed from the generated purchase-probabilities for products in
285
- the market and for the outside good, specify :attr:`mergeron.RECTypes.OUTIN`.)
285
+ the market and for the outside good, specify :attr:`mergeron.RECForm.OUTIN`.)
286
286
 
287
287
  The GUPPI boundary is a continuum of diversion ratio boundaries conditional on
288
288
  price-cost margins, :math:`d_{ij} = g_i * p_i / (m_j * p_j)`,
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ from .. import ( # noqa: TID252
21
21
  ArrayDouble,
22
22
  ArrayFloat,
23
23
  ArrayINT,
24
- RECTypes,
24
+ RECForm,
25
25
  UPPAggrSelector,
26
26
  )
27
27
  from ..core.pseudorandom_numbers import DIST_PARMS_DEFAULT # noqa: TID252
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ class PriceSpec(tuple[bool, str | None], enum.ReprEnum):
57
57
 
58
58
 
59
59
  @enum.unique
60
- class SHRDistributions(enum.StrEnum):
60
+ class SHRDistribution(enum.StrEnum):
61
61
  """Market share distributions."""
62
62
 
63
63
  UNI = "Uniform"
@@ -98,26 +98,26 @@ class ShareSpec:
98
98
  A key feature of market-share specification in this package is that
99
99
  the draws represent markets with multiple different firm-counts.
100
100
  Firm-counts are unspecified if the share distribution is
101
- :attr:`mergeron.SHRDistributions.UNI`, for Dirichlet-distributed market-shares,
101
+ :attr:`mergeron.SHRDistribution.UNI`, for Dirichlet-distributed market-shares,
102
102
  the default specification is that firm-counts vary between
103
103
  2 and 7 firms with each value equally likely.
104
104
 
105
105
  Notes
106
106
  -----
107
- If :attr:`mergeron.gen.ShareSpec.dist_type`:code:` == `:attr:`mergeron.gen.SHRDistributions.UNI`,
107
+ If :attr:`mergeron.gen.ShareSpec.dist_type`:code:` == `:attr:`mergeron.gen.SHRDistribution.UNI`,
108
108
  then it is infeasible that
109
- :attr:`mergeron.gen.ShareSpec.recapture_form`:code:` == `:attr:`mergeron.RECTypes.OUTIN`.
109
+ :attr:`mergeron.gen.ShareSpec.recapture_form`:code:` == `:attr:`mergeron.RECForm.OUTIN`.
110
110
  In other words, if firm-counts are unspecified, the recapture rate cannot be
111
111
  estimated using outside good choice probabilities.
112
112
 
113
113
  For a sample with explicit firm counts, market shares must
114
114
  be specified as having a supported Dirichlet distribution
115
- (see :class:`mergeron.gen.SHRDistributions`).
115
+ (see :class:`mergeron.gen.SHRDistribution`).
116
116
 
117
117
  """
118
118
 
119
- dist_type: SHRDistributions
120
- """See :class:`SHRDistributions`"""
119
+ dist_type: SHRDistribution
120
+ """See :class:`SHRDistribution`"""
121
121
 
122
122
  dist_parms: ArrayDouble | None = field(
123
123
  default=None, eq=cmp_using(eq=np.array_equal)
@@ -143,22 +143,22 @@ class ShareSpec:
143
143
 
144
144
  @firm_counts_weights.validator
145
145
  def _check_fcw(_i: ShareSpec, _a: Attribute[ArrayDouble], _v: ArrayDouble) -> None:
146
- if _v is not None and _i.dist_type == SHRDistributions.UNI:
146
+ if _v is not None and _i.dist_type == SHRDistribution.UNI:
147
147
  raise ValueError(
148
148
  "Generated data for markets with specified firm-counts or "
149
149
  "varying firm counts are not feasible for market shares "
150
150
  "with Uniform distribution. Consider revising the "
151
- r"distribution type to {SHRDistributions.DIR_FLAT}, which gives "
151
+ r"distribution type to {SHRDistribution.DIR_FLAT}, which gives "
152
152
  "uniformly distributed draws on the :math:`n+1` simplex "
153
153
  "for firm-count, :math:`n`."
154
154
  )
155
155
 
156
- recapture_form: RECTypes = field(default=RECTypes.INOUT)
157
- """See :class:`mergeron.RECTypes`"""
156
+ recapture_form: RECForm = field(default=RECForm.INOUT)
157
+ """See :class:`mergeron.RECForm`"""
158
158
 
159
159
  @recapture_form.validator
160
- def _check_rf(_i: ShareSpec, _a: Attribute[RECTypes], _v: RECTypes) -> None:
161
- if _v == RECTypes.OUTIN and _i.dist_type == SHRDistributions.UNI:
160
+ def _check_rf(_i: ShareSpec, _a: Attribute[RECForm], _v: RECForm) -> None:
161
+ if _v == RECForm.OUTIN and _i.dist_type == SHRDistribution.UNI:
162
162
  raise ValueError(
163
163
  "Market share specification requires estimation of recapture rate from "
164
164
  "generated data. Either delete recapture rate specification or set it to None."
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ class ShareSpec:
168
168
  """A value between 0 and 1, typically 0.8.
169
169
 
170
170
  :code:`None` if market share specification requires direct generation of
171
- outside good choice probabilities (:attr:`mergeron.RECTypes.OUTIN`).
171
+ outside good choice probabilities (:attr:`mergeron.RECForm.OUTIN`).
172
172
 
173
173
  The recapture rate is usually calibrated to the numbers-equivalent of the
174
174
  HHI threshold for the presumtion of harm from unilateral competitive effects
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ class ShareSpec:
191
191
  def _check_rr(_i: ShareSpec, _a: Attribute[float], _v: float) -> None:
192
192
  if _v and not (0 < _v <= 1):
193
193
  raise ValueError("Recapture rate must lie in the interval, [0, 1).")
194
- elif _v is None and _i.recapture_form != RECTypes.OUTIN:
194
+ elif _v is None and _i.recapture_form != RECForm.OUTIN:
195
195
  raise ValueError(
196
196
  f"Recapture specification, {_i.recapture_form!r} requires that "
197
197
  "the market sample specification inclues a recapture rate in the "
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ class ShareSpec:
200
200
 
201
201
 
202
202
  @enum.unique
203
- class PCMDistributions(enum.StrEnum):
203
+ class PCMDistribution(enum.StrEnum):
204
204
  """Margin distributions."""
205
205
 
206
206
  UNI = "Uniform"
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ class PCMDistributions(enum.StrEnum):
210
210
 
211
211
 
212
212
  @enum.unique
213
- class FM2Constants(enum.StrEnum):
213
+ class FM2Constraint(enum.StrEnum):
214
214
  """Firm 2 margins - derivation methods."""
215
215
 
216
216
  IID = "i.i.d"
@@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ class PCMSpec:
234
234
 
235
235
  """
236
236
 
237
- dist_type: PCMDistributions = field(kw_only=False, default=PCMDistributions.UNI)
238
- """See :class:`PCMDistributions`"""
237
+ dist_type: PCMDistribution = field(kw_only=False, default=PCMDistribution.UNI)
238
+ """See :class:`PCMDistribution`"""
239
239
 
240
240
  dist_parms: ArrayDouble | None = field(kw_only=False, default=None)
241
241
  """Parameter specification for tailoring PCM distribution
@@ -260,9 +260,9 @@ class PCMSpec:
260
260
  "are not valid with margin distribution, {_dist_type_pcm!r}"
261
261
  )
262
262
  elif (
263
- _i.dist_type == PCMDistributions.BETA and len(_v) != len(("a", "b"))
263
+ _i.dist_type == PCMDistribution.BETA and len(_v) != len(("a", "b"))
264
264
  ) or (
265
- _i.dist_type == PCMDistributions.BETA_BND
265
+ _i.dist_type == PCMDistribution.BETA_BND
266
266
  and len(_v) != len(("mu", "sigma", "max", "min"))
267
267
  ):
268
268
  raise ValueError(
@@ -270,18 +270,18 @@ class PCMSpec:
270
270
  f'for PCM with distribution, "{_i.dist_type}" is incorrect.'
271
271
  )
272
272
 
273
- elif _i.dist_type == PCMDistributions.EMPR and _v is not None:
273
+ elif _i.dist_type == PCMDistribution.EMPR and _v is not None:
274
274
  raise ValueError(
275
275
  f"Empirical distribution does not require additional parameters; "
276
276
  f'"given value, {_v!r} is ignored."'
277
277
  )
278
278
 
279
- firm2_pcm_constraint: FM2Constants = field(kw_only=False, default=FM2Constants.IID)
280
- """See :class:`FM2Constants`"""
279
+ firm2_pcm_constraint: FM2Constraint = field(kw_only=False, default=FM2Constraint.IID)
280
+ """See :class:`FM2Constraint`"""
281
281
 
282
282
 
283
283
  @enum.unique
284
- class SSZConstants(float, enum.ReprEnum):
284
+ class SSZConstant(float, enum.ReprEnum):
285
285
  """
286
286
  Scale factors to offset sample size reduction.
287
287
 
@@ -13,18 +13,18 @@ from attrs import Attribute, define, field, validators
13
13
  from joblib import Parallel, cpu_count, delayed # type: ignore
14
14
  from numpy.random import SeedSequence
15
15
 
16
- from .. import VERSION, RECTypes # noqa: TID252 # noqa
16
+ from .. import VERSION, RECForm # noqa: TID252 # noqa
17
17
  from ..core import guidelines_boundaries as gbl # noqa: TID252
18
18
  from ..core.guidelines_boundaries import HMGThresholds # noqa: TID252
19
19
  from . import (
20
- FM2Constants,
20
+ FM2Constraint,
21
21
  MarketDataSample,
22
- PCMDistributions,
22
+ PCMDistribution,
23
23
  PCMSpec,
24
24
  PriceSpec,
25
25
  ShareSpec,
26
- SHRDistributions,
27
- SSZConstants,
26
+ SHRDistribution,
27
+ SSZConstant,
28
28
  UPPTestRegime,
29
29
  UPPTestsCounts,
30
30
  )
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ __version__ = VERSION
40
40
 
41
41
 
42
42
  class SamplingFunctionKWArgs(TypedDict, total=False):
43
- "Keyword arguments of function, :func:`MarketSample.sim_enf_cnts`"
43
+ "Keyword arguments of sampling methods defined below"
44
44
 
45
45
  sample_size: int
46
46
  """number of draws to generate"""
@@ -73,26 +73,26 @@ class MarketSample:
73
73
 
74
74
  share_spec: ShareSpec = field(
75
75
  kw_only=True,
76
- default=ShareSpec(SHRDistributions.UNI, None, None, RECTypes.INOUT, 0.8),
76
+ default=ShareSpec(SHRDistribution.UNI, None, None, RECForm.INOUT, 0.8),
77
77
  validator=validators.instance_of(ShareSpec),
78
78
  )
79
79
  """Market-share specification, see :class:`ShareSpec`"""
80
80
 
81
81
  pcm_spec: PCMSpec = field(
82
- kw_only=True, default=PCMSpec(PCMDistributions.UNI, None, FM2Constants.IID)
82
+ kw_only=True, default=PCMSpec(PCMDistribution.UNI, None, FM2Constraint.IID)
83
83
  )
84
84
  """Margin specification, see :class:`PCMSpec`"""
85
85
 
86
86
  @pcm_spec.validator
87
87
  def _check_pcm(self, _a: Attribute[PCMSpec], _v: PCMSpec, /) -> None:
88
88
  if (
89
- self.share_spec.recapture_form == RECTypes.FIXED
90
- and _v.firm2_pcm_constraint == FM2Constants.MNL
89
+ self.share_spec.recapture_form == RECForm.FIXED
90
+ and _v.firm2_pcm_constraint == FM2Constraint.MNL
91
91
  ):
92
92
  raise ValueError(
93
93
  f'Specification of "recapture_form", "{self.share_spec.recapture_form}" '
94
94
  "requires Firm 2 margin must have property, "
95
- f'"{FM2Constants.IID}" or "{FM2Constants.SYM}".'
95
+ f'"{FM2Constraint.IID}" or "{FM2Constraint.SYM}".'
96
96
  )
97
97
 
98
98
  price_spec: PriceSpec = field(
@@ -100,12 +100,12 @@ class MarketSample:
100
100
  )
101
101
  """Price specification, see :class:`PriceSpec`"""
102
102
 
103
- hsr_filing_test_type: SSZConstants = field(
103
+ hsr_filing_test_type: SSZConstant = field(
104
104
  kw_only=True,
105
- default=SSZConstants.ONE,
106
- validator=validators.instance_of(SSZConstants),
105
+ default=SSZConstant.ONE,
106
+ validator=validators.instance_of(SSZConstant),
107
107
  )
108
- """Method for modeling HSR filing threholds, see :class:`SSZConstants`"""
108
+ """Method for modeling HSR filing threholds, see :class:`SSZConstant`"""
109
109
 
110
110
  data: MarketDataSample = field(default=None)
111
111
 
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ class MarketSample:
124
124
  """
125
125
  Generate share, diversion ratio, price, and margin data for MarketSpec.
126
126
 
127
- see :attr:`SamplingFunctionKWArgs` for description of parameters
127
+ see :attr:`SamplingFunctionKWArgs` for description of keyord parameters
128
128
 
129
129
  Returns
130
130
  -------
@@ -149,8 +149,8 @@ class MarketSample:
149
149
  _shr_sample_size = 1.0 * sample_size
150
150
  # Scale up sample size to offset discards based on specified criteria
151
151
  _shr_sample_size *= _hsr_filing_test_type
152
- if _dist_firm2_pcm == FM2Constants.MNL:
153
- _shr_sample_size *= SSZConstants.MNL_DEP
152
+ if _dist_firm2_pcm == FM2Constraint.MNL:
153
+ _shr_sample_size *= SSZConstant.MNL_DEP
154
154
  _shr_sample_size = int(_shr_sample_size)
155
155
 
156
156
  # Generate share data
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ class MarketSample:
195
195
 
196
196
  _mnl_test_rows = _mnl_test_rows * _hsr_filing_test
197
197
  _s_size = sample_size # originally-specified sample size
198
- if _dist_firm2_pcm == FM2Constants.MNL:
198
+ if _dist_firm2_pcm == FM2Constraint.MNL:
199
199
  _mktshr_array = _mktshr_array[_mnl_test_rows][:_s_size]
200
200
  _pcm_array = _pcm_array[_mnl_test_rows][:_s_size]
201
201
  _price_array = _price_array[_mnl_test_rows][:_s_size]
@@ -240,13 +240,21 @@ class MarketSample:
240
240
  self,
241
241
  /,
242
242
  *,
243
- sample_size: int = 10**6,
244
- seed_seq_list: list[SeedSequence] | None,
243
+ sample_size: int,
244
+ seed_seq_list: Sequence[SeedSequence],
245
245
  nthreads: int,
246
- save_data_to_file: SaveData = False,
247
- saved_array_name_suffix: str = "",
246
+ save_data_to_file: SaveData,
247
+ saved_array_name_suffix: str,
248
248
  ) -> None:
249
- """Generate market data"""
249
+ """Populate :attr:`data` with generated data
250
+
251
+ see :attr:`SamplingFunctionKWArgs` for description of keyord parameters
252
+
253
+ Returns
254
+ -------
255
+ None
256
+
257
+ """
250
258
 
251
259
  self.data = self.gen_market_sample(
252
260
  sample_size=sample_size, seed_seq_list=seed_seq_list, nthreads=nthreads
@@ -389,7 +397,8 @@ class MarketSample:
389
397
 
390
398
  Returns
391
399
  -------
392
- Arrays of UPPTestCounts
400
+ Arrays of enforcement counts or clearance counts by firm count,
401
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