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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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Demographic change and bank profitability : empirical evidence from German savings banks

Berlemann, Michael; Oestmann, Marco; Thum, Marcel - 2010

Most European economies will experience significant demographic changes in the decades ahead. Due to low birth rates, populations are shrinking and ageing at the same time. This paper explores the impact of demographic change on the banking industry. A unique data set, which contains detailed...

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Do mergers among multimarket firms create value?

Linde, Sebastian; Siebert, Ralph - 2016

information on mergers and firm-level multimarket production and innovation within the semiconductor industry. Using the pairwise …

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A treatment effect method for merger analysis with an application to parking prices in Paris

Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - 2010

Most retrospective merger studies resort to the treatment effect approach, comparing the price dynamics in a treatment group and in a control group. We propose a systematic method to construct the groups, which applies to any industry with spatial competition. The method is consistent with the...

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Concentration and competition : evidence from Europe and implications for policy

Koltay, Gábor; Lorincz, Szabolcs; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2022

The paper provides new evidence on proxy indicators of market power for major European countries. The data shows moderately increasing average industry concentration over the last two decades, a considerably increasing proportion of high concentration industries, and an overall tendency towards...

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Double marginalization and vertical integration

Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent; Vergé, Thibaud - 2021

Asymmetric information in procurement entails double marginalization. The phenomenon is most severe when the buyer has all the bargaining power at the production stage, while it vanishes when the buyer and suppliers' weights are balanced. Vertical integration eliminates double marginalization...

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Price or variety? : an evaluation of mergers effects in grocery retailing

Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Cervone, Roberto; … - 2018

Assortment decisions are key strategic instruments for firms responding to local market conditions. We assess this claim by studying the effect of a national merger between two large Dutch supermarket chains on prices and on the depth as well as composition of assortment. We adopt a...

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A model of heterogeneous firm matches in cross-border mergers & acquisitions

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Gerritse, Michiel; … - 2018 - This version: May 2018

In contrast to empirical evidence, recent theories of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) assume perfect knowledge transfers - from high to low productivity firms - between acquirer and target. Using the Melitz (2003) model of heterogeneous firms, we develop a matching model of...

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The effect of mergers on variety in grocery retailing

Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Cervone, Roberto; … - 2021

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...

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A retrospective study of state aid control in the German broadband market

Duso, Tomaso; Nardotto, Mattia; Seldeslachts, Jo - 2021

We provide an evaluation of the impact of public subsidy schemes that aimed to support the development of basic broadband infrastructure in rural areas of Germany. Such subsidies are subject to state aid control by the European Commission (EC). While the EC increasingly recognises the role of...

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