This paper provides an economic analysis of recent vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. industry for audiovisual … media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine … economic effects of these types of mergers on market competition, focusing on digital media content distribution. In doing so …

Agricultural cooperatives are participating in mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures at a … case for agricultural cooperatives since these firms do not have an explicit profit motive nor publicly traded stock …. Results from a three-stage econometric model reveal that a major motivation for cooperatives to engage in these activities is …

cooperatives. This paper presents the results of a recent survey of agricultural cooperatives and attempts to identify major trends … in merger activity within cooperatives. …

This paper builds on the work of BUSCHENA and GRAY (1999) to look at the effects of mergers in the North American … trade. Mergers reduce the trade gains of malt consumers and barley producers in both countries and reduce the welfare losses … of malting plants in the U.S. According to our estimates, the second wave of mergers may have led to a positive total …

link. We compare the survival of the French agricultural cooperatives with their competitors. We apply a semiparametric … effects. The study shows the specific temporal dynamics of cooperatives. Some explanations of this result are derived from …

We analyze the effects of mergers and the introduction of concurrent marketing mechanisms on the seller’s revenue … upon the set of possible mergers. Second, we show that mergers may simultaneously increase the seller’s revenue and improve …