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Multi-firm mergers with leaders and followers

Atallah, Gamal - In: Seoul journal of economics 28 (2015) 4, pp. 455-485

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Horizontal mergers, involuntary unemployment, and welfare

Budzinski, Oliver; Budzinski, Jürgen-Peter - 2009

neglected. We introduce them into a standard oligopoly model of horizontal merger by assuming an (empirically supported …) decrease in labour demand due to merger-specific synergies and derive welfare effects. We find that efficiency benefits from …-side effects remain negligible. Eventually, policy conclusions for merger control are discussed. …

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Upward pricing pressure of mergers weakening vertical relationships

Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen - 2015

We modify the UPP test of Farrell and Shapiro (2010) to take into account the possibility that a merger weakens (or … eliminates) a vertical supply relationship. After deriving a general effect of the merger, we provide an example of simple …

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Trade relationships, indirect economic links, and mergers

Harford, Jarrad V. T.; Schonlau, Robert; Stanfield, Jared - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 65 (2019) 7, pp. 3085-3110

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Downstream mergers in a vertically differentiated unionized oligopoly

Mesa-Sánchez, Borja - 2010

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Strategic data sales to competing firms

Delbono, Flavio; Reggiani, Carlo; Sandrini, Luca - 2021

The unprecedented access of firms to consumer level data facilitates more precisely targeted individual pricing. We study the incentives of a data broker to sell data about a segment of the market to three competing firms. The segment only includes a share of the consumers in the market around...

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Optimal destabilization of cartels

Auer, Ludwig von; Tu Anh Pham - 2019

The literature on cartel stability sidelines antitrust policy, whereas the literature on antitrust policy tends to neglect issues of cartel stability. This paper attempts to connect these two interrelated aspects in the context of an augmented quantity leadership model. The cartel is the...

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Price-fixing policy

Kaplow, Louis - 2018

reconciled with principles of oligopoly theory. This article (1) presents a fundamental reconceptualization of our understanding …

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Optimal destabilization of cartels

Auer, Ludwig von; Tu Anh Pham - 2020

behavior, at least one of these actors is always missing. By contrast, the present paper's oligopoly model includes all three …

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Core Existence in Vertically Differentiated Markets

Marini, Marco A. - 2020

We prove that a sufficient condition for the core existence in a n-firm vertically differentiated market is that the qualities of firms' products are equally-spaced along the quality spectrum. This result contributes to see that a fully collusive agreement among firms in such markets is more...

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