before the merger. While the low-variety target's stores reduced the depth of their assortment when in direct competition …We study the effect of a merger between two Dutch supermarket chains to assess its effect on the depth as well as … composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in the merger's effects …

This paper empirically evaluates the price effects of the merger of two major book retail chains in the UK: Waterstone … information on a sample of 200 books sold in 60 stores in 50 different local markets for a period of four years around the merger …. Since retail mergers may have either local or national effects (or both) according to the level at which retail chains set …

This paper empirically evaluates the price effects of the merger of two major book retail chains in the UK: Waterstone … information on a sample of 200 books sold in 60 stores in 50 different local markets for a period of four years around the merger …. Since retail mergers may have either local or national effects (or both) according to the level at which retail chains set …

This paper empirically evaluates the price effects of the merger of two major book retail chains in the UK: Waterstone … information on a sample of 200 books sold in 60 stores in 50 different local markets for a period of four years around the merger …. Since retail mergers may have either local or national effects (or both) according to the level at which retail chains set …

This paper empirically evaluates the effects of a merger between the two largest book retail chains in the UK. We build … difference-in-differences techniques to assess the impact of the merger. A key feature of the books market is that titles become … obsolete very quickly. Therefore, we compare different titles before and after the merger in an hedonic approach. Since retail …

This paper analyzes the effects of a merger between a German supermarket chain and a soft discounter on consumer prices … indicate that both insiders and outsiders raised average prices after the merger, particularly in regions with high expected …

superstore entry reduce their product variety on average by 2.8 %. The shelf prices and average category prices of incumbent …-weighted indices which are prone to errors in such a setting. The findings suggest that retail chains use product variety as a …

This paper evaluates the price effects of the merger of two major UK book retailers. We use a dataset containing … monthly scanner data on a sample of 200 books in 50 local markets for four years around the merger. We compare the price … changes after the merger in shops located in areas where both chains were present before the merger and in areas where only …