During the 1990s, the rate of consolidation among agricultural cooperatives, including mergers, acquisitions, strategic …‐owned firms, this has not been the case for agricultural cooperatives, primarily because these firms do not have an explicit … cooperatives to engage in these activities is to circumvent capital constraints. Furthermore, the decision to merge and financial …

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 …

-equilibrium model that features mergers, entry, and exit by heterogeneous firms. Mergers affect productivity directly through realized …

We analyze the effects of mergers and the introduction of concurrent marketing mechanisms on the seller’s revenue … upon the set of possible mergers. Second, we show that mergers may simultaneously increase the seller’s revenue and improve …

According to the well-known “merger paradoxâ€, 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 …