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Dominant platform businesses often develop products in adjacent markets to complement their core business. One common approach used to gain traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer into Windows, and Apple set...
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We allow the preference of a political majority to determine boththe corporate governance structure and the division of profits betweenhuman and financial capital. In a democratic society where financialwealth is concentrated, a political majority may prefer to restraingovernance by dispersed...
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The Intercontinental Exchange's current attempted acquisition of NYSE-Euronext is the third takeover proposal in as many years. In this article the two previous attempts are reviewed and lessons are drawn from an antitrust and competition policy perspective concerning the evolving competitive...
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that it is beneficial to be a non-merging rival firm to a large horizontal merger. Using a sample of mergers with expert …
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terms of mergers and acquisitions, resulting in a decreasing number of hospital owners. In this study, I examine the ex … liquid resources are more often the targets of acquisitions. On the other hand, hospitals with a lower equity-to-assets ratio …
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relative to what is socially optimal. Moreover, prohibiting acquisitions may increase or decrease consumer surplus. The more …, the more likely is that consumers benefit (suffer) following an acquisition. These results are robust to acquisitions …
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