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Antitrust authorities all over the world are concerned if a particularly aggressive competitor, a "maverick", is bought out of the market. One plausible determinant of acting as a maverick is behavioral: the maverick derives utility from acting competitively. We test this conjecture in the lab....
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In this paper, two pairs of complementors have to decide whether to merge and eventually bundle their products. Depending on the degree of competitive pressure in the market, either both pairs decide to merge (with or without bundling), or only one pair merges and bundles, while rivals remain...
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. We find that such incentives may exist when there are efficiency gains from a merger, firms are of different sizes, there …We set up a sequential merger game to study a firm's incentives to pass up on an opportunity to merge with another firm …
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We analyse the effects of investment decisions and firms internal organisation on the efficiency and stability of …. We show that often stable mergers do not lead to more e.ciency and may even lead to efficiency losses. These mergers lead … to lower total welfare, suggesting that a regulator should be careful in assuming that possible efficiency gains of a …
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