Hundreds of millions of microenterprises in emerging economies face increased competition from the entry and expansion …, neighborhood shops, confront competition from convenience chains (e.g., 7- Eleven) in Mexico. To address the endogeneity in time …

Most often, the competition authorities approve combinations based on the tradeoff between the expected efficiency … creation since merger regulations are ex ante in nature. The present study is an attempt to understand how far the expected … efficiency gains are actually achieved by the firms entering into consolidation in India, which experienced large number of …

depend on how changes in ownership affect markups versus efficiency. We find that owner fixed effects contribute very little … model, we simulate the consequences of counter-factual national merger regulation. The US beer price index would have been 4 …-7% higher without divestitures. Up to 30% savings could have been obtained in Latin America by emulating the pro-competition …

among incumbent banks on competition and discuss when, depending on the pre-merger structure of the market and geographic … distribution of branches, the merger is anti-competitive. The paper has implications for competition policy as it suggests an …This paper analyses the relation between competition and concentration in the banking sector. The empirical answer is …

-BA), and finally output-based allocation in sectors exposed to international competition combined with auctioning in …