This paper provides an economic analysis of recent vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. industry for audiovisual … media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine … economic effects of these types of mergers on market competition, focusing on digital media content distribution. In doing so …

According to the well-known "merger paradox", in a Cournot market game mergers are generally unprofitable unless most … firms merge. The present paper proposes an optimal merger mechanism. With this mechanism mergers are never unprofitable …

Agricultural cooperatives are participating in mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures at a … case for agricultural cooperatives since these firms do not have an explicit profit motive nor publicly traded stock …. Results from a three-stage econometric model reveal that a major motivation for cooperatives to engage in these activities is …

producers through their own elevators. Farmer cooperatives as a whole have been unable to effectively countervail this growth in … market concentration. Cooperatives do, 'however, have the potential to counteract their competition's position by pooling …

cooperatives. This paper presents the results of a recent survey of agricultural cooperatives and attempts to identify major trends … in merger activity within cooperatives. …

locally owned farm supply/grain marketing cooperatives in Indiana and Colorado in the spring of 2000. The case has been …