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Big tech acquisitions and innovation : an empirical assessment
Barsy, Laureen de; Gautier, Axel - 2024
this analysis, we use patent citations as a proxy for the innovation effort by the acquirer. Our main result is to show … that acquisition increases the innovation effort of the acquirer but only temporarily. After 1.5 year, there is no longer a … significant impact of the acquisition on the acquirer’s innovation effort. This decline is relatively larger when the acquired …
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Competition and mergers with strategic data intermediaries
Bounie, David; Dubus, Antoine; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2021
We analyze competition between data intermediaries collecting information on consumers, which they sell to firms for price discrimination purposes. We show that competition between data intermediaries benefits consumers by increasing competition between firms, and by reducing the amount of...
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Mergers in the digital economy
Gautier, Axel; Lamesch, Joe - 2020
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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