. Since retail mergers may have either local or national effects (or both) according to the level at which retail chains set …

. Since retail mergers may have either local or national effects (or both) according to the level at which retail chains set …

mergers may have either local or national effects (or both) according to the level at which retail chains set prices, we …

. Since retail mergers may have either local or national effects (or both) according to the level at which retail chains set …

horizontal merger activity. We propose a theoretically-backed methodological approach to classify mergers that yields more … information on merger types and merger effects, and that can, moreover, distinguish between mergers characterized largely by … collusion-based synergies and mergers characterized largely by efficiency-based synergies. Crucial to the proposed measurement …