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Horizontal merger under strategic tax policy

Liu, Chih-Chen; Mukherjee, Arijit; Wang, Leonard F. S. - 2014

We show that the presence of a strategic tax policy increases the incentive for a horizontal merger compared to the … a horizontal merger that has been ignored in the existing literature. In contrast to the usual belief, we also show that … a horizontal merger may benefit the consumers and the society. …

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Tariffs, Licensing and Market Structure

Mukherjee, Arijit - 2005

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that exclusive owners of an advanced technology are always better off when producing as a monopolist than when competing against another firm. Competition against a less efficient firm weakens the power that a host country can exert on the incumbent...

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Horizontal Merger Under Strategic Tax Policy

Liu, Chih-Chen - 2014

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Protecting Consumers Through Patent Protection : The Implications of Merger

Banerjee, Shantanu; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2014

patent protection may encourage horizontal merger and affect the consumers adversely by increasing product …

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A note on the adverse effect of competition on consumers

Dinda, Soumyananda; Mukherjee, Arijit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

It is usually believed that higher competition, implying more active firms, benefits consumers. We show that this may not be the case in an industry with asymmetric cost firms. A rise in the number of more cost inefficient firms makes the consumers worse-off in the presence of a welfare...

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