Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus; Yurtoglu, Burcin B. - 2006
merging and rival firms' stocks to quantify the profitability effects of mergers and merger control decisions. We back up our … mergers during the first investigation phase. Yet, they are on the whole ineffective or even detrimental when applied after … merging firms to rivals when mistakenly applied to pro-competitive mergers. …