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. 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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. 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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mergers may have either local or national effects (or both) according to the level at which retail chains set prices, we …
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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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. 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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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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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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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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merger’s effects, controlling for selection on observables when defining our control group through a matching procedure. We …
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