Allain, Marie-Laure; Souam, Saïd - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique … - 2005
This paper studies horizontal mergers in vertically related markets. In atwo-level Cournot model, with an intermediate and a final market, we show thatdownstream mergers inducing size effects are, ceteris paribus, more profitablethan upstream ones. Moreover, a merger at one level reduces the...