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Evidence of Regulatory Arbitrage in Cross-Border Mergers of Banks in the EU
Carbo-Valverde, Santiago - 2010
banks in individual EU countries help to explain the nature of cross-border merger activity. If they wish to protect …
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How to Get Away with Merger : Stealth Consolidation and its Effects on Us Healthcare
Wollmann, Thomas - 2022
Only large mergers must be reported to the US government, so many anticompetitive deals may effectively avoid antitrust scrutiny. This paper uses data from the dialysis industry to show that premerger notifications are essential to antitrust enforcement and that ensuing enforcement actions...
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Patent Rights, Product Market Reforms, and Innovation
Aghion, Philippe - 2014
Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this paper, we address this question by investigating how innovation responses to a substantial policy initiative increasing product market competition interact with the strength of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064451
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The Effect of Privacy Regulation on the Data Industry : Empirical Evidence from Gdpr
Aridor, Guy; Che, Yeon-Koo; Salz, Tobias - 2022
Regulation (GDPR). The opt-in requirement of GDPR resulted in 12.5% drop in the intermediary-observed consumers, but the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014100575
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Mergers, Deregulation and Cost Savings in the U.S. Rail Industry
Berndt, Ernst R.; Friedlaender, Ann F.; Wang Chiang, … - 2021
undisputed. Deregulation has proceeded in three ways: (i) eased rate setting restrictions; (ii) simplified merger applications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210639
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The Euro and Structural Reforms
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010
This paper investigates whether or not the adoption of the Euro has facilitated the introduction of structural reforms, defined as deregulation in the product markets and liberalization and deregulation in the labor markets. After reviewing the theoretical arguments that may link the adoption of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758159
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The Economic Future of Europe
Blanchard, Olivier J. - 2021
After three years of near stagnation, the mood in Europe is definitely gloomy. Many doubt that the European model has a future. In this paper, I argue that things are not so bad, and there is room for optimism. Over the last thirty years, productivity growth has been much higher in Europe than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243948
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Competitive Liberalization and a Us-Sacu FTA
Whalley, John; Leith, J. Clark - 2022
This paper evaluates a possible US-SACU (Southern African Customs Union) free trade agreement as part of a US approach to new preferential trade agreements characterized by the term competitive liberalization.' This is the idea that competition among large countries (US/EU) to negotiate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324133
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Can Governments Do it Better? Merger Mania and Hospital Outcomes in the English NHS
Gaynor, Martin - 2011
this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting … on behalf of the public, and justified on the grounds that merger will improve outcomes. We examine whether this promise … involved in a merger, but that politics means that selection for a merger may be random with respect to future performance. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118244
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The Price Effects of a Large Merger of Manufacturers : A Case Study of Maytag-Whirlpool
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2011
appliance markets most affected by the merger to markets where concentration changed much less or not at all. We estimate price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119784