According to the well-known "merger paradox", in a Cournot market game mergers are generally unprofitable unless most … firms merge. The present paper proposes an optimal merger mechanism. With this mechanism mergers are never unprofitable …

This paper provides an economic analysis of recent vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. industry for audiovisual … media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine … economic effects of these types of mergers on market competition, focusing on digital media content distribution. In doing so …

-equilibrium model that features mergers, entry, and exit by heterogeneous firms. Mergers affect productivity directly through realized …