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Law Serials Pricing and Mergers: A Portfolio Approach
McCabe, Mark J - In: Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy 3 (2004) 1, pp. 1-29
Using data from more than 400 legal serials, I estimate the impact of six publisher mergers on law serial prices during … after accounting for secular price trends. Furthermore, these merger effects occurred across a broadly-defined portfolio of … services, these effects were not observed. Based on the portfolio demand behavior of buyers, I offer an explanation for this …
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Unternehmenszusammenschlüsse im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel verringern die Produktvielfalt
Duso, Tomaso; Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 83 (2016) 1, pp. 11-22
mergers and acquisitions among already powerful retail chains. These considerationslead antitrust authorities to very … study for the Dutch Autoriteit Consument & Markt (ACM), we examined the effects of a series of three national mergers in the … mergers did not have significant effects on prices. However, we find that the last mergersignificantly reduced the depth of …
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Price or variety? An evaluation of mergers effects in grocery retailing
Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Cervone, Roberto; … - 2018
Assortment decisions are key strategic instruments for firms responding to local market conditions. We assess this claim by studying the effect of a national merger between two large Dutch supermarket chains on prices and on the depth as well as composition of assortment. We adopt a...
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The effect of retail mergers on prices and variety: An ex-post evaluation
Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Cervone, Roberto; … - 2016
Unlike most retrospective merger studies that only focus on price effects, we also estimate the impact of a merger on product variety. We use an original dataset on Dutch supermarkets to assess the effect of a merger that was conditionally approved by the Dutch Competition Authority (ACM) on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496944
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The effect of mergers on variety in grocery retailing
Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Cervone, Roberto; … - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 79 (2021), pp. 1-19
We study a merger between two Dutch supermarket chains to assess its effect on the depth as well as composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in pre-merger competitive conditions and thus in the merger outcomes. To define our control...
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Bridging the gap between horizontal and vertical merger simulation: Modifications and extensions of PCAID
Bush, C. Anthony - 2014
vertical mergers. Using public data from the Comcast-Time Warner-Adelphia Merger Order of the Federal Communications Commission …
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Strategic Delegation and Mergers in Oligopolistic Contests
Kräkel, Matthias; Sliwka, Dirk - 2002
In this paper, we combine the strategic delegation approach of Fershtman-Judd-Sklivas with contets. The results show that besides a symmetric equilibrium there also exist asymmetric equilibria in which one owner induces pure sales maximization to his manager so that all the other firms drop out...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317662
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Strategic delegation and mergers in oligopolistic contests
Kräkel, Matthias; Sliwka, Dirk - 2002
In this paper, we combine the strategic delegation approach of Fershtman-Judd-Sklivas with contets. The results show that besides a symmetric equilibrium there also exist asymmetric equilibria in which one owner induces pure sales maximization to his manager so that all the other firms drop out...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539675
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The effect of retail mergers on prices and variety : an ex-post evaluation
Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Cervone, Roberto; … - 2016
Unlike most retrospective merger studies that only focus on price effects, we also estimate the impact of a merger on product variety. We use an original dataset on Dutch supermarkets to assess the effect of a merger that was conditionally approved by the Dutch Competition Authority (ACM) on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496799
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Unternehmenszusammenschlüsse im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel verringern die Produktvielfalt
Duso, Tomaso; Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 83 (2016) 1, pp. 11-22
mergers and acquisitions among already powerful retail chains. These considerationslead antitrust authorities to very … study for the Dutch Autoriteit Consument & Markt (ACM), we examined the effects of a series of three national mergers in the … mergers did not have significant effects on prices. However, we find that the last mergersignificantly reduced the depth of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412971