This paper examines the effect of cross-border shopping on grocery demand in Norway using monthly storexcategory sales … data from Norway's largest grocery chain 2011-2016. The sensitivity of demand to foreign price is hump-shaped and greatest …

This paper examines the effect of cross-border shopping on grocery demand in Norway using monthly store×category sales … data from Norway's largest grocery chain 2011-2016. The sensitivity of demand to foreign price is hump-shaped and greatest …

regime where widely-held public companies dominate. In the discourse, little has been said about the contribution of merger … British experience suggests that mergers matter with respect to the evolution of systems of ownership and control and that the … manner in which anti-competitive behaviour is regulated influences the extent to which transformative merger activity takes …

In this ex-post analysis, we have used three large pharmaceutical merger cases to examine the correctness of the market … three merger cases that were reviewed by both competition authorities between 2000 and 2015 with regard to their impact on …

We study the effect of a merger in a dynamic high-technology industry – the videogame market – which is characterized … by frequent introduction of new products. To assess the impact of the merger between two large specialist retailers in … the merger. This decline has been more marked for the merging parties, which suggests that the merger between Game and …

We study the effect of a merger in a dynamic high-technology industry -- the videogame market -- which is characterized … by frequent introduction of new products. To assess the impact of the merger between two large specialist retailers in … the merger. This decline has been more marked for the merging parties, which suggests that the merger between Game and …

This paper empirically evaluates the price effects of the merger of two major book retail chains in the UK: Waterstone … information on a sample of 200 books sold in 60 stores in 50 different local markets for a period of four years around the merger …. Since retail mergers may have either local or national effects (or both) according to the level at which retail chains set …

identify the strategic focus of this rivalry, namely the drive to provide an ever greater variety of consumer products, and to …

) Incentives to increase variety are higher for duopoly supermarkets because of the business stealing effect; 2) As more products …Looking at a large number of markets, I find that (i) prices and variety are higher when there are two competing … supermarkets than in those with a single store and (ii) the two effects are positively correlated. This pattern persists after …

breakdowns with the three years afterwards. Second, for the subset of horizontal mergers, merger activity is found to increase …We investigate the impact of cartel breakdowns on merger activity. Merging information on cartel cases decided by the … European Commission (EC) between 2000 and 2011 with a detailed data set of worldwide merger activity, we find that, first, the …