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Passive partial ownership, sneaky takeover, and merger control
Jovanovic, Dragan; Wey, Christian - 2013
. It follows that an antitrust authority ignoring existing PPOs when evaluating merger proposals (which reflects the …
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Passive partial ownership, sneaky takeovers, and merger control
Jovanovic, Dragan; Wey, Christian - In: Economics letters 125 (2014) 1, pp. 32-35
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Implications of unprofitable horizontal mergers: a positive external effect does not suffice to clear a merger!
Budzinski, Oliver; Kretschmer, Jürgen-Peter - In: Contemporary economics 10 (2016) 1, pp. 13-26
Standard analysis of mergers in oligopolies along the lines of the popular Farrell-Shapiro Framework (FSF) relies, regarding its policy conclusions, on the assumption that rational agents will only propose privately profitable mergers. If this assumption were held, a positive external effect of...
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Happily ever after? - vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. media industry
Stöhr, Annika; Noskova, Victoriia; Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, … - 2019
? (iii) What are implications for antitrust policy? We conclude from our analysis that in the already highly horizontally …
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Unprofitable horizontal mergers, external effects, and welfare
Budzinski, Oliver; Kretschmer, Jürgen-Peter - 2015
Standard analysis of mergers in oligopolies along the lines of the popular Farrell-Shapiro-Framework (FSF) relies regarding its policy conclusions sensitively on the assumption that rational agents will only propose privately profitable mergers. If this assumption held, a positive external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492104
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Horizontal merger analysis
Kaplow, Louis - 2020
Economic analysis of competition regulation is most developed in the domain of horizontal mergers, and modern agency guidelines reflect a substantial consensus on the appropriate template for merger assessment. Nevertheless, official protocols are understood to rest on a problematic market...
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Chapter 15 Antitrust
Kaplow, Louis; Shapiro, Carl - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 2, (pp. 1073-1225). 2007
This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition … central features of antitrust policy. Our objective is to foster the improvement of legal regimes and also to identify topics …
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Merger remedies in oligopoly under a consumer welfare standard
Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2015
We analyze the welfare effects of structural remedies on merger activity in a Cournot oligopoly if the antitrust agency …
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The effects of remedies on merger activity in oligopoly : conference paper
Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2013
We analyze the effects of structural remedies on merger activity in a Cournot oligopoly when the antitrust agency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340565
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Horizontal mergers with capital adjustments : workers' cooperatives and the merger paradox
Delbono, Flavio; Lambertini, Luca - 2014
We study the incentives towards horizontal merger among firms when the amount of capital is the strategic variable. The type of firms we focus on is workers' cooperatives, but our conclusions apply also to employment-constrained profit maximisers. Within a simple oligopoly model, we prove that...
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