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The merger-paradox : a tournament-based solution
Fan, Cuihong; Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2014
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 …
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Future Role Of Cooperatives In Marketing Beans, Peas, And Lentils
Smith, Art - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1980
producers through their own elevators. Farmer cooperatives as a whole have been unable to effectively countervail this growth in … market concentration. Cooperatives do, 'however, have the potential to counteract their competition's position by pooling …
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A Local Cooperative's Financial and Strategic Analysis of the Evaluation of Potential Merger Partners
Fulton, Joan R.; Hine, Susan E.; Vandeburg, Jennifer M.; … - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 07 (2004) 03
locally owned farm supply/grain marketing cooperatives in Indiana and Colorado in the spring of 2000. The case has been …
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The merger-paradox: A tournament-based solution
Fan, Cuihong; Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - In: Economics Letters 127 (2015) C, pp. 35-38
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189503
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The Merger-Paradox: A Tournament-Based Solution
Fan, Cuihong; Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
According to the well-known “merger paradoxâ€, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929705
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VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL COORDINATION IN THE AGRO-BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY: EVIDENCE AND IMPLICATIONS
Kalaitzandonakes, Nicholas G.; Bjornson, Bruce - 1997
Agro-biotechnology is evolving from a pre-commercial phase dominated by basic research science to a commercial phase oriented around marketing products. In pursuing innovation rents in the commercial phase, firms are reorienting their strategies around complementary marketing and distribution...
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Food Industry Mergers and Acquisitions Lead to Higher Labor Productivity
Ollinger, Michael; Nguyen, Sang V.; Blayney, Donald P.; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2006
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005802927
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VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL COORDINATION IN THE AGRO-BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY: EVIDENCE AND IMPLICATIONS
Kalaitzandonakes, Nicholas G.; Bjornson, Bruce - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 29 (1997) 01
Agro-biotechnology is evolving from a pre-commercial phase dominated by basic research science to a commercial phase oriented around marketing products. In pursuing innovation rents in the commercial phase, firms are reorienting their strategies around complementary marketing and distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005320895
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The Merger-Paradox: A Tournament-Based Solution
Fan, Cuihong; Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427163
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Merger activity in industry equilibrium
Dimopoulos, Theodosios; Sacchetto, Stefano - 2014
-equilibrium model that features mergers, entry, and exit by heterogeneous firms. Mergers affect productivity directly through realized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442884