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Production efficiency of firms with mergers and acquisitions in India

Saraswathy, Beena - 2015

mergers and acquisitions especially after the economic reforms of 1990s. Specifically, we have examined the technical … efficiency of the firms involved in mergers and acquisitions, separately for cross-border and domestic deals. …

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Asymmetric vertical integration

Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2004 - Revised version

We examine vertical backward integration in a reducedform model of successive oligopolies. Our key findings are: (i) There may be asymmetric equilibria where some firms integrate and others remain separated, even if firms are symmetric initially; (ii) Efficient firms are more likely to integrate...

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Competition policy and exit rates : evidence from Switzerland

Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Kaiser, Christian (contributor) - 2004 - March 2004, revised April 2005

exit. We adopt a natural experiment approach towards analyzing the impact of a tightening of Swiss antitrust legislation on …

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Downstream investment in oligopoly

Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We examine cost-reducing investment in vertically-related oligopolies, where firms may be vertically integrated or separated. Analyzing a standard linear Cournot model, we show that: (i) Integrated firms invest more than separated competitors. (ii) Vertical integration increases own investment...

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An institutional analysis of the enforcement problems in merger control

Budzinski, Oliver - 2010

earlier versions of this paper. -- Merger control ; European competition policy ; antitrust ; enforcement problems …

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Advertised meeting-the-competition clauses : collusion instead of price discrimination

Budzinski, Oliver; Kretschmer, Jürgen-Peter - 2010

Pricing strategies may include the advertising of meeting-the-competition clauses (MCCs). We show in a specific spatial model scenario with differently informed consumers that MCCs primarily serve as a device to facilitate collusion instead of allowing for price discrimination between these...

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Exclusive dealing: the interaction between foreclosure and investment promotion

Fumagalli, Chiara; Motta, Massimo; Rønde, Thomas - 2009

This paper studies a model where exclusive dealing (ED) can both promote investment and foreclose a more efficient supplier. While investment promotion is usually regarded as a pro-competitive effect of ED, our paper shows that it may be the very reason why a contract that forecloses a more...

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Impact evaluation of merger decisions

Budzinski, Oliver - 2011

; merger control ; competition policy ; antitrust decisions ; comparative analysis …

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Modern industrial economics and competition policy : open problems and possible limits

Budzinski, Oliver - 2009

-called more economic approach in the 2000s). This contribution reviews the state of the art in antitrust-oriented modern … industrial economics and, in particular, critically discusses open questions and possible limits of basing antitrust on modern … economics should be used to design better competition rules. -- competition policy ; antitrust ; modern industrial economics …

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A simple theory of predation

Fumagalli, Chiara; Motta, Massimo - 2010

are also discussed. -- Anticompetitive Behaviour ; Exclusion ; Below-Cost Pricing ; Antitrust …

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