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Unternehmenszusammenschlüsse im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel verringern die Produktvielfalt

Duso, Tomaso; Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 83 (2016) 1, pp. 11-22

mergers and acquisitions among already powerful retail chains. These considerationslead antitrust authorities to very … study for the Dutch Autoriteit Consument & Markt (ACM), we examined the effects of a series of three national mergers in the … mergers did not have significant effects on prices. However, we find that the last mergersignificantly reduced the depth of …

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They played the merger game: A retrospective analysis in the UK videogames market

Aguzzoni, Luca; Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; … - 2013

We study the effect of a merger in a dynamic high-technology industry-the videogame market- which is characterized by frequent introduction of new products. To assess the impact of the merger between two large specialist retailers in the UK, we perform a difference-in-differences analysis...

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A retrospective evaluation of the GDF/Suez merger: Effects on gas hub prices

Argentesi, Elena; Banal-Estanol, Albert; Seldeslachts, Jo; … - 2017

We present an ex-post analysis of the effects of GDF's acquisition of Suez in 2006 created one of the world's largest energy companies. We perform an econometric analysis, based on Difference-in-Difference techniques on the market for trading on the Zeebrugge gas hub in Belgium. Removing...

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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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Price or Variety? An Evaluation of Mergers Effects in Grocery Retailing

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

merger’s effects, controlling for selection on observables when defining our control group through a matching procedure. We …

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Ex-post Merger Evaluation in the U.K. Retail Market for Books

Aguzzoni, Luca; Argentesi, Elena; Ciari, Lorenzo; Duso, … - In: The Journal of Industrial Economics 64 (2016) 1, pp. 170-200

This paper evaluates the price effects of the merger of two major UK book retailers. We use a dataset containing monthly scanner data on a sample of 200 books in 50 local markets for four years around the merger. We compare the price changes after the merger in shops located in areas where both...

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The effect of retail mergers on prices and variety: An ex-post evaluation

Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Cervone, Roberto; … - 2016

Unlike most retrospective merger studies that only focus on price effects, we also estimate the impact of a merger on product variety. We use an original dataset on Dutch supermarkets to assess the effect of a merger that was conditionally approved by the Dutch Competition Authority (ACM) on...

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Merger Policy in Digital Markets: An Ex-Post Assessment

Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Calvano, Emilio; … - 2019

This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first … investigated mergers and whether a more effective merger control regime can be achieved within the current legal framework. …

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The effect of mergers on variety in grocery retailing

Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Cervone, Roberto; … - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 79 (2021), pp. 1-19

We study 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 pre-merger competitive conditions and thus in the merger outcomes. To define our control...

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Ex-post merger evaluation in the UK retail market for books

Aguzzoni, Luca; Argentesi, Elena; Ciari, Lorenzo; Duso, … - 2013

. Since retail mergers may have either local or national effects (or both) according to the level at which retail chains set …

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