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NYSE changing hands: Antitrust and attempted acquisitions of an erstwhile monopoly

Jeitschko, Thomas D. - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2013

many years. In this article the two previous attempts are reviewed and lessons are drawn from an antitrust and competition …

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Economic Analysis at the European Commission 2012–2013

Buettner, Thomas; Federico, Giulio; Kühn, Kai-Uwe; … - In: Review of Industrial Organization 43 (2013) 4, pp. 265-290

In 2012–2013 the European Commission has had particularly prominent merger cases, with two prohibitions of transactions and several clearances with far-reaching remedies. In these cases economic analysis has been tightly integrated into the general argument of the Commission and became central...

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Competition and Innovation in Automobile Markets

Ghosal, Vivek; Ni, Jiayao - 2015

Using data from the U.S. automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the U.S. market’s economic importance, market dynamics, and the significant...

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Virtual capacity and competition

Schultz, Christian - 2005

In several European merger cases competition authorities have demanded that the merging firm auctions off virtual capacity. The buyer of virtual capacity receives an option on an amount of output at a pre-specified price, typically equal to marginal cost. This output is sold in the market in...

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Competition and stability in banking

Vives, Xavier - 2010

I review the state of the art of the academic theoretical and empirical literature on the potential trade-off between competition and stability in banking. There are two basic channels through which competition may increase instability: by exacerbating the coordination problem of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270643

Antitrust Limits to Patent Settlements

Shapiro, Carl - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2001

This paper focuses on the class of legal rules that governs intellectual property rights: the antitrust limits imposed … on patent settlements. The paper discusses the benefits and costs of settlements and explains why antitrust limits on …. This paper explores a simple antitrust rule governing settlements of intellectural property disputes: a settlement cannot …

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Horizontal mergers of online firms: Structural estimation and competitive effects

An, Yonghong; Baye, Michael R.; Hu, Yingyao; Morgan, John; … - 2010

horizontal mergers. Our results suggest that competitive effects in this online market are more closely aligned with the simple … horizontal mergers. However, there are potential distributional effects; our estimates indicate that a three-to-two merger raises …

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Happily ever after? Vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. media industry

Stöhr, Annika; Noskova, Victoriia; Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, … - 2019

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 …

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NYSE changing hands: Antitrust and attempted acquisitions of an erstwhile monopoly

Jeitschko, Thomas D. - 2013

many years. In this article the two previous attempts are reviewed and lessons are drawn from an antitrust and competition …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319612

Mergers by Partial Acquisition

Lindqvist, Tobias - 2004

the insiders' dilemma, i.e. profitable mergers do not occur. This strategy may thus be more profitable for a buyer than …

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