Haas, Samuel de; Schäfer, Jan Thomas - 2017
We study effects on prices and quantities of a takeover in the rather concentrated German interurban bus industry. We … empirically asses the effect of the takeover of Postbus by Flixbus on industry key features, using a route-level price data set … prices significantly increase and quantities decrease in the post-takeover phase. However, these results are mainly driven by …