This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first … theories of harm in major merger cases in the past few years. We then analyse the characteristics of almost 300 acquisitions … important merger cases, Facebook/Instagram and Google/Waze, providing a systematic assessment of the theories of harm considered …

This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first … theories of harm in major merger cases in the past few years. We then analyse the characteristics of almost 300 acquisitions … important merger cases, Facebook/Instagram and Google/Waze, providing a systematic assessment of the theories of harm considered …

their post-merger survival. SPACs are unique financial firms that conduct the IPO with the solely purpose to use the … determining post-merger outcomes of new company, specifically when it comes to their suvival/failure. Namely, increases in pre-merger … commitment by SPAC stakeholders and initial positive market performance increase post-merger survival likelihood. On the contrary …

We study the effect of a merger in a dynamic high-technology industry - the videogame market - which is characterized … by frequent introduction of new products. To assess the impact of the merger between two large specialist retailers in … the merger. This decline has been more marked for the merging parties, which suggests that the merger between Game and …

This paper empirically evaluates the price effects of the merger of two major book retail chains in the UK: Waterstone … information on a sample of 200 books sold in 60 stores in 50 different local markets for a period of four years around the merger … prices, we undertake an ex-post assessment of the impact of the merger at both levels. At the local level, we compare the …

claim by studying the effect of a national merger between two large Dutch supermarket chains on prices and on the depth as … merger’s effects, controlling for selection on observables when defining our control group through a matching procedure. We … show that the local change in competitive conditions due to the merger did not affect individual products’ prices but it …

This paper evaluates the price effects of the merger of two major UK book retailers. We use a dataset containing … monthly scanner data on a sample of 200 books in 50 local markets for four years around the merger. We compare the price … changes after the merger in shops located in areas where both chains were present before the merger and in areas where only …