Long, Ngo Van; Vousden, Neil - In: Review of International Economics 3 (1995) 2, pp. 141-55
This paper analyzes the effects of tariff reductions on horizontal mergers in a Cournot oligopoly in a two-country world. It is shown that for mergers between two domestic firms and for cross-border mergers which supply both markets from a foreign plant, unilateral tariff reduction encourages...