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Mergers and market power : evidence from rivals' responses in European markets
Stiebale, Joel; Szücs, Florian - 2019
This paper analyzes the effects of mergers and acquisitions on the markups of non-merging rival firms across a broad set of industries. We exploit expert market definitions from the European Commission's merger decisions to identify relevant competitors in narrowly defined product markets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061779
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An empirical assessment of the 2004 EU merger policy reform
Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus; Szücs, Florian - 2010
Based on a database of 326 merger cases scrutinized by the European Commission between 1990 and 2007, we evaluate the economic impact of the change in European merger legislation in 2004. We first propose a general framework to assess merger policy effectiveness, which is based on standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008822615
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An empirical assessment of the 2004 EU merger policy reform
Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus; Szücs, Florian - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008933717
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An empirical assessment of the 2004 EU merger policy reform
Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus; Szücs, Florian - 2010
Based on a database of 326 merger cases scrutinized by the European Commission between 1990 and 2007, we evaluate the economic impact of the change in European merger legislation in 2004. We first propose a general framework to assess merger policy effectiveness, which is based on standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408081
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The impact of competition policy enforcement on the functioning of EU energy markets
Duso, Tomaso; Seldeslachts, Jo; Szücs, Florian - 2017
We investigate the impact of competition policy enforcement on the functioning of European energy markets, and how … EU member states’ competition policy decisions, and combine it with firm- and sector-level data. We find that EC merger … policy has a positive and robust impact on (i) the level of competition; (ii) investment; and (iii) productivity. This impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672928
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Mergers and the markups of rival firms : evidence from European markets
Stiebale, Joel; Szücs, Florian - 2019 - This draft: March 1, 2019
This paper analyzes the effects of mergers on markups of non-merging rival firms in narrowly defined markets. Combining data from the European Commission’s market assessments in merger decisions with production data, we use recent methodological advances in the estimation of production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317414