variety. PL introduction and PL-driven assortment changes of NBs impose a small effect on NB prices. In contrast, PLs strongly …

Divestitures have received little attention in ex-post evaluations of mergers. In partial remedy we simulate the … effects of the Carlsberg-Pripps merger in the Swedish beer market and compare the predicted outcomes with those observed ex …-post. There are no important price increases following the merger and prices of divested beers fell. Our merger simulations, that …

/Modelo merger. The merger relaxes incentive compatibility constraints and increases the equilibrium supermarkup. Merger efficiencies …

This study shows that mergers’ price effects can vary seasonally. I document countercyclical price increases due to the … Coors and Miller merger, which is consistent with models of coordinated pricing that predict lower equilibrium prices during …

Cartels and horizontal mergers can be viewed as alternative arrangements to increase profitability and act as means of … that in absence of any penalty on cartel, a firm always prefers a cartel to merger, when the latter does not involve any … concentration among the competitive fringe lowers the profitability of merger as compared to cartel. We then discuss the impact of …

containing the opening hours of nearly all German grocery retailers, we find that consumer and firm learning influence that …