This paper builds on the work of BUSCHENA and GRAY (1999) to look at the effects of mergers in the North American … trade. Mergers reduce the trade gains of malt consumers and barley producers in both countries and reduce the welfare losses … of malting plants in the U.S. According to our estimates, the second wave of mergers may have led to a positive total …

We analyze the effects of mergers and the introduction of concurrent marketing mechanisms on the seller’s revenue … upon the set of possible mergers. Second, we show that mergers may simultaneously increase the seller’s revenue and improve …

-production facilities involved in mergers and acquisitions. The industries are meatpacking, meat processing, poultry slaughtering and … that mergers and acquisitions contributed to the general improvement in labor productivity, echoing an earlier ERS study …

market for innovation. Recent data on mergers, acquisitions, and strategic collaborations in the agricultural biotechnology …

that increased vertical mergers in food industries would lower profits. …

principle of intercooperation. Sixteen wine producing cooperatives in the State of Rio Grande do Sul were assessed, all members …

quality is uncertain. When the level of social capital in cooperatives is higher than a threshold, which is decreasing in … members’ subjective risk toward production uncertainty, cooperatives are able to achieve higher product quality than investor …

cooperatives than for other firms, but provides a lower performance. This result deserves further investigations. …