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compatibility and can engage in bundling. We consider the impact of merger on prices, investment and consumer surplus. We also …
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post-merger efficiency improvements to reveal a new margin of adjustment along the product dimension. We analyze horizontal … between differentiated varieties. After a merger, acquirers drop products from their consolidated domestic product portfolio … and reallocate assets towards core varieties. We further demonstrate that such merger-induced efficiency gains imply …
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effects of M&As on firms' post-merger R&D investments and drug development capabilities across drug development phases. This … study builds on a novel database that enables us to evaluate the post-merger effect at the research project level and across … examine the direct and indirect merger effects on R&D capabilities across development phases. We find that M&As have a strong …
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We study the evolution of EC merger decisions over the first 25 years of common European merger policy. Using a novel … dataset at the level of the relevant antitrust markets and containing all merger cases scrutinized by the Commission over the … definition and the complexity of the merger. Simple, linear probability models as usually applied in the literature overestimate …
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This paper studies the impact of corporate acquisitions - both domestic and cross-border - on the uncertainty faced by acquiring firms. We use data for UK publicly-listed firms from 2004 to 2017 and employ a matching estimator combined with difference-in-differences to control for the endogenous...
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Over the period 2015-2017, the five giant technologically leading firms, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (GAFAM) acquired 175 companies, from small start-ups to billion dollar deals. By investigating this intense M&A, this paper ambitions a better understanding of the Big Five's...
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We study the effect of a merger between two Dutch supermarket chains to assess its effect on the depth as well as … composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in the merger’s effects …, controlling for selection on observables through a matching procedure when defining our control group. We show that the merger led …
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that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for 1,014 mergers affecting 12,325 antitrust markets scrutinized by the … concerns about the Commission’s merger enforcement being too lax …
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In this paper we analyse the bank merger between DnB and Gjensidige Bank in 2003, ranked by market share as number one … unaffected markets, but this relationship is weak and not statistically significant. The merger also affected the riskiness of … the modest effects of the merger. The weak effects are largely coincident with international literature showing the …
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the system, and that merger policies commonly used to deal with troubled financial institutions during crises have …
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