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The thesis investigates the impact of endogenous financial synergies on the product market behavior of merging firms …. Examining a diversifying merger of risk-neutral firms in unrelated product markets, it finds that purely financial synergies … aspects of mergers and acquisitions that cause financial synergies are therefore important for the assessment of unilateral …
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Regulation is indispensable for the functioning of financial markets. After a decade of deregulation, financial regulation has come back into the focus of political discussion. This work reviews the effectiveness of existing and need for new regulation in two exemplary empirical studies. The...
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questions:(1) How does the existing antitrust-law in the United States, Germany, and the European Union affect the behavior of … relevant interestgroups? (2) Is it possible to improve the efficiency of the existing antitrust-laws in Germany and in the EU … by introducing an privat action clause comparable to the US-antitrust-laws? …
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Die Internationalisierung der Wettbewerbspolitik wird unter dem Aspekt untersucht, wie Staaten ihre wettbewerbspolitischen Maßnahmen im internationalen Handel strategisch ausnutzen können. In Analogie zur strategischen Handelspolitik werden die unilateral gesetzten Wettbewerbspolitiken mit der...
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The price variable is among the most powerful instruments in the arsenal of the executives to achieve entry deterrence objectives. There are two main pricing strategies that firms may use to defend against a competitive market entry. The first of these options, limit pricing (or entry deterring...
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This thesis strives to offer new insights in two main areas. First, in the well-researched domain of payment cards chapters 2 and 3 investigate an aspect that has hitherto been scantly examined, namely, the fact that merchant usage fees differ substantially among merchant sectors. Additionally,...
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