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Worldwide, the overwhelming majority of large horizontal mergers are cleared by antitrust authorities unconditionally. The presumption seems to be that efficiencies from these mergers are sizeable. We calculate the compensating efficiencies that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for...
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Worldwide, the overwhelming majority of large horizontal mergers are cleared by antitrust authorities unconditionally. The presumption seems to be that efficiencies from these mergers are sizeable. We calculate the compensating efficiencies that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668490
-merger HHI, is larger than reported in the extant literature (at least) by a factor of ten. We also show that concentration has …An increasing body of empirical evidence is documenting trends toward rising concentration, profits, and markups in … many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market …
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-merger HHI, is larger than reported in the extant literature (at least) by a factor of ten. We also show that concentration has …An increasing body of empirical evidence is documenting trends toward rising concentration, profits, and markups in … many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market …
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1990-2014 period, we evaluate how consistently arguments related to structural market parameters – dominance, concentration …’s competitive concerns are also correlated with concentration and the more so, the higher the entry barriers and the risks of …
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Wages for the vast majority of workers have stagnated since the 1980s while productivity has grown. We investigate two coexisting explanations based on rising market power: 1. Monopsony, where dominant firms exploit the limited mobility of their own workers to pay lower wages; and 2. Monopoly,...
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has relatively low information requirements. We propose to use the index as a natural complement to concentration measures …
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