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Petroleum mergers and competition in the Northeast United States
Silva, Louis; Taylor, Christopher T. - In: International journal of the economics of business 20 (2013) 1, pp. 97-124
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Price Setting in Transition : The Effect of Takeover on a Petroleum Firm
Valachy, Juraj - 2009
In this paper, I investigate the effect of the takeover of a Slovak petroleum firm on its price setting mechanism. In … and controlled by managers, only negative changes in input prices were reflected in the output price. After the takeover … before takeover the composite input costs and competitors’ prices have very little (or no) impact on fuel price. After …
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Price Setting in Transition : The Effect of Takeover on a Petroleum Firm
Valachy, Juraj - 2003
In this paper, I investigate the effect of the takeover of a Slovak petroleum firm on its price setting mechanism. In … and controlled by managers, only negative changes in input prices were reflected in the output price. After the takeover … before takeover the composite input costs and competitors' prices have very little (or no) impact on fuel price. After …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083306
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Pioneer Pannar Merger Impact Assessment
Paelo, Anthea; Robb, Genna; Vilakazi, Thando - 2018
This paper sets out the findings of an ex-post economic assessment of the conditionally approved merger between Pioneer Hi-Bred International (Pioneer) and Pannar Seed Limited (Pannar). We critically assess the economic effects of the transaction in the South African market for hybrid maize seed...
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Mergers with Nascent Rivals Can Boost Prices, Bar Entry, and Intensify Market Concentration
Rabbani, Maysam - 2022
Google’s takeover of Android and YouTube. I also introduce a framework for analyzing mergers with nascent rivals …
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The Success of Divestitures in Merger Enforcement : Evidence from the J&J-Pfizer Transaction
Tenn, Steven; Yun, John M. - 2009
Despite being a widely used tool in merger enforcement, there have been few studies of whether antitrust divestitures are successful. We help fill this void by conducting a study of the divestitures relating to Johnson & Johnson's $16.6 billion acquisition of Pfizer's consumer health division in...
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The Price Effects of a Large Merger of Manufacturers : A Case Study of Maytag-Whirlpool
Weinberg, Matthew - 2012
Many experts speculate that U.S. antitrust policy towards horizontal mergers has been too lenient. We estimate the price effects of Whirlpool's acquisition of Maytag to provide new evidence on this debate. We compare price changes in appliance markets most affected by the merger to markets where...
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Prices, Market Definition, and the Effects of Merger : Staples-Office Depot (1997)
Dalkir, Serdar - 2019
On September 4, 1996, the two largest office superstore chains in the United States, Office Depot and Staples, announced their agreement to merge. Seven months later, the Federal Trade Commission voted 4 to 1 to oppose the merger on the grounds that it was likely to harm competition and lead to...
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The Effect of Hospital Mergers on Inpatient Prices : A Case Study of the New Hanover-Cape Fear Transaction
Thompson, Aileen - 2009
The Federal Trade Commission initiated a Hospital Merger Retrospective Project in 2002 to analyze the effects of consummated mergers. One of the mergers studied was the 1998 acquisition by New Hanover Regional Medical Center ("New Hanover") of Columbia Cape Fear Memorial Hospital ("Cape Fear")...
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