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

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

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 …

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

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

composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in the merger’s effects …