(milk and sugar) and examines the trade off effect between efficiency gains on business level and dangers for competition … merger laws and acquires economic tools for a practical examination for merger regulation authorities. The gain is to … demonstrate an application of theoretical merger models on real existing mergers of dairy- and sugar companies and find out how to …

We investigate the competitive effects of the merger between Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines (2009) in the … increases of about 11 percent on overlapping routes and about 10 percent on routes which experienced a merger-induced switch of … the operating carrier. Over a longer period, however, our analysis reveals that both merger efficiencies and post-merger …

Merger control authorities may approve a merger based on a so-called “efficiency defence”. An important aspect in … clearing mergers is that the efficiencies need to be merger-specific. Joint ventures, and in particular research joint ventures … and RJVs achieve dominant (net) efficiency effects. Our counterfactuals provide evidence that the efficiency gains caused …

merger that occurred by the end of 2015 (the BRF/MRP merger) had any discernable market-power or efficiency effects. To do … counterbalances the price increases induced by the merger. This implies that total consumers' surplus may have grown as a consequence … of the merger …

This paper examines whether gains in bank megamergers occur due to efficiency improvements or the exercise of market … power using financial statement line item forecasts from Value Line to infer the effect of the merger on prices and … quantities. The average megamerger is associated with cost-efficiency improvements. In the cross-section, efficiency gains are …