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Merger Control and Enterprise Competitiveness - Empirical Analysis and Policy Recommendations

Stennek, Johan; Verboven, Frank - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

This report studies the importance of efficiency gains from horizontal mergers. A general theme throughout this report is that efficiency gains, and their pass-on to consumers, may vary substantially from merger to merger. For this reason it seems appropriate to reconsider current practice in...

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Merger Control and Enterprise Competitiveness - Empirical Analysis and Policy Recommendations.

Stennek, J.; Verboven, F. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670113

Efficiency Gains from Mergers

Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stennek, Johan; Verboven, Frank - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

The purpose of this report is to contribute to the analysis of two questions. Should a merger control system take into account efficiency gains from horizontal mergers, and balance these gains against the anti-competitive effects of mergers? If so, how should a system be designed to account for...

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Trust, Leniency and Deterrence

Bigoni, Maria; Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof; Le Coq, Chloe; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

several other forms of crimes that share cartels’ strategic features, including corruption and financial fraud. …

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The Auctioning of a Failing Firm

Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

This paper evaluates the welfare consequences of the failing firm doctrine in the EU and US merger laws. I combine an oligopoly model with an "endogenous valuations" auction model. Thereby, I take into account that, in an oligopoly, a firm's willingness to pay for the assets depends on the...

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Wholesale Price Discrimination and Parallel Imports

Ganslandt, Mattias; Maskus, Keith E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

We develop a model of vertical pricing in which an original manufacturer sets wholesale prices in two markets integrated at the distributor level by parallel imports (PI). In this context we show that if competition policy requires uniform wholesale prices across locations it would push retail...

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Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Policy

Ganslandt, Mattias - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

Intellectual property rights and competition policy are intimately related. In this paper I survey the economic literature analyzing the interaction between intellectual property law and competition law and how the boundary between these two policies is drawn in practice. Recognizing that...

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Fines, Leniency and Rewards in Antitrust: An Experiment

Bigoni, Maria; Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof; Le Coq, Chloé; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

whistleblowers affect cartel formation and prices. Antitrust without leniency reduces cartel formation, but increases cartel prices …: subjects use costly fines as (altruistic) punishments. Leniency further increases deterrence, but stabilizes surviving cartels …. With rewards, cartels are reported systematically and prices finally fall. If a ringleader is excluded from leniency …

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Privatization, Investment and Ownership Efficiency

Friberg, Richard; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

We provide a model that explains the following empirical observations: i) private ownership is more efficient than public ownership, ii) privatizations are associated with increases in efficiency and iii) the increase in efficiency predates the privatization. The two key mechanisms explaining...

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Immediate Agreement in Interdependent Bilateral Bargaining

Björnerstedt, Jonas; Stennek, Johan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

This note provides sufficient conditions for immediate agreement in an extensive form model of interdependent bilateral bargaining. The model is suggested by Björnerstedt and Stennek (2006) as a work horse for studying bilateral oligopoly. The key feature of this model is that the firms are...

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