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Worldwide, the overwhelming majority of large horizontal mergers are cleared by antitrust authorities unconditionally. The presumption seems to be that efficiencies from these mergers are sizeable. We calculate the compensating efficiencies that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for...
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Worldwide, the overwhelming majority of large horizontal mergers are cleared by antitrust authorities unconditionally. The presumption seems to be that efficiencies from these mergers are sizeable. We calculate the compensating efficiencies that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668490
-merger HHI, is larger than reported in the extant literature (at least) by a factor of ten. We also show that concentration has …An increasing body of empirical evidence is documenting trends toward rising concentration, profits, and markups in … many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market …
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-merger HHI, is larger than reported in the extant literature (at least) by a factor of ten. We also show that concentration has …An increasing body of empirical evidence is documenting trends toward rising concentration, profits, and markups in … many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012426540
Worldwide, the overwhelming majority of large horizontal mergers are cleared by antitrust authorities unconditionally. The presumption seems to be that efficiencies from these mergers are sizeable. We calculate the compensating efficiencies that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321703
1990-2014 period, we evaluate how consistently arguments related to structural market parameters – dominance, concentration …’s competitive concerns are also correlated with concentration and the more so, the higher the entry barriers and the risks of …
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Worldwide, the overwhelming majority of large horizontal mergers are cleared by antitrust authorities unconditionally. The presumption seems to be that efficiencies from these mergers are sizeable. We calculate the compensating efficiencies that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314675
Patent Assertion Entities (“PAEs”) are playing a growing role in the United States, but also in Europe. Their activities are controversial in that while they may be a source of efficiencies, they may also create anticompetitive harm. Given the growing trend of operating companies...
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The IEEE-SA updated patent policy and the Business Review Letter issued by the US DoJ have caused much discussion in the US (Sidak, 2015). The purpose of this paper is to assess whether a similarly lenient antitrust approach to Standard Setting Organizations’ (“SSOs”) rate setting policies...
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