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Acquisiton Strategies: Empirical Evidence of Outsider-Toeholds
Lindqvist, Tobias - 2005
Theoretically, cross ownership may mitigate mergers, i.e. market concentrations. Holding a share in a competing firm before the acquisition of another firm, outsider-toehold, is more profitable in some market constellations, due to the positive externality on the outsider (competing) firm when a...
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Event studies in merger analysis : review and an application using U.S. TNIC data
Klein, Timo - 2020 - Revision: March 2020
There is a growing concern that U.S. merger control may have been too lenient, but empirical evidence remains limited. Event studies have been used as one method to acquire empirical insights into the competitive effects of mergers. However, existing work suffers from strong identifying...
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Collusion in the US generic drug industry
Clark, Robert; Fabiilli, Christopher Anthony; Lasio, Laura - 2021
We study cartels that operated in the US generic drug industry, leveraging quarterly Medicaid data from 2011-2018 and a difference-in-differences approach comparing the evolution of prices of allegedly collusive drugs with a group of competitive control drugs. Our analysis highlights (i) the...
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CEO preferences and acquisitions
Jenter, Dirk; Lewellen, Katharina - 2011
This paper explores the impact of target CEOs' retirement preferences on the incidence, the pricing, and the outcomes of takeover bids. Mergers frequently force target CEOs to retire early, and CEOs' private merger costs are the forgone benefits of staying employed until the planned retirement...
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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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Law and economics of Microsoft vs. U.S. Department of Justice : new paradigm for antitrust in network markets or inefficient lock-in of antitrust policy?
Radke, Marc-Peter - 2001
-in position without any antitrust intervention. However, I argue in accordance with opponents of ARTHUR's work that path … interpretations of the U.S. antitrust law don't meet the requirements of fair competition rules in the 'New Economy'. If plaintiffs … and market participants, further antitrust lawsuits are going to follow since most markets in the 'New Economy' are …
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Empirical analysis of the assessment of innovation effects in U.S. merger cases
Kern, Benjamin R.; Dewenter, Ralf; Kerber, Wolfgang - 2014
In this empirical study all mergers that have been challenged by the U.S. antitrust agencies FTC and DOJ between 1995 …-spread rejection of the "innovation market approach" in the antitrust debate - the agencies used more an innovationspecific assessment …
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The Future of Municipal Wireless in the United States and Europe
Chesley, Karen A. - 2013
As the information age progresses, the need for cheap, easy Internet access increases if we want citizens to be able to participate in the global economy. In both the United States and the European Union, cities have taken the lead in attempting to provide Internet access via wireless Internet...
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Some Observations on Claims That Rising Market Power Is Responsible for US Economy Ills and That Lax Antitrust Is the Villain
Carlton, Dennis W. - 2020
the US economy to perform poorly and that lax antitrust policy is one important reason for the decline in economic … calls for dramatic changes in antitrust policy …
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The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Sets Student-Athletes' Antitrust Case for Trial (NCAA)
Carrier, Michael A. - 2018
attempt by the NCAA and 11 conferences to dismiss claims that defendants violated antitrust law by “conspiring to impose an …
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