Clougherty, Joseph A.; Duso, Tomaso - 2010
-based synergies in horizontal merger activity. We propose a schematic to classify mergers that yields more information on merger types … and merger effects, and that can, moreover, distinguish between mergers characterized largely by collusion-based synergies … encompasses the impact of merger events not only on merging firms - as is custom - but also on non-merging competitor firms (the …