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Is the event study methodology useful for merger analysis? : a comparison of stock market and accounting data

Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus; Yurtoglu, B. Burcin - 2006

Using a sample of 167 mergers during the period 1990-2002 involving 544 firms either as merging firms or competitors …, we contrast a measure of the merger's profitability based on event studies with one based on accounting data. We find … case of anticompetitive mergers. …

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Third Party Access and Refusal to Deal : How Sector Regulation and Competition Law Meet Each Other

Diathesopoulos, Michael D. - 2010

In this paper, we will analyse further the issue of concurrence between competition and sector rules and the relation between parallel concepts within the two different legal frameworks. We will firstly examine Third Party Access in relation to essential facilities doctrine and refusal of access...

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A Statistical Analysis of UK Antitrust Enforcement

Veljanovski, Cento - 2018

The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has been a highly rated competition law enforcer. Yet its antitrust performance activities fall far short of this image. Here a critical assessment is made of the OFT's antitrust enforcement activities, and the claim that there is quantitative survey evidence...

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Decision-making authority in British supermarket chains

Alexander, Andrew - In: Business history 57 (2015) 4, pp. 614-637

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Online reviews and customer satisfaction : the use of Trustpilot by UK retail energy suppliers and three other sectors

Littlechild, Stephen C. - 2020

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Stock market reaction to irregular supermarket chain behaviour : an investigation in the retail sectors of Ireland and the United Kingdom

Corbet, Shaen; McMullan, Caroline - In: Journal of retailing and consumer services 43 (2018), pp. 20-29

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Does the Commercial format influence the effect that store brands' equity has on loyalty to the retailer?

Rubio Benito, Natalia; Villaseñor, Nieves; Yagüe … - In: Advances in National Brand and Private Label Marketing …, (pp. 125-133). 2018

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Merger Effects and Antitrust Enforcement : Evidence from US Retail

Bhattacharya, Vivek; Illanes, Gastón; Stillerman, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

in the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. Through a model of enforcement, we find that agencies challenge mergers they expect …We document the effects of a comprehensive set of US retail mergers. On average, prices increase by 1.5% and quantities … decrease by 2.3%, with significant heterogeneity in outcomes across mergers. Price changes correlate with the screens codified …

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Merger Effects and Antitrust Enforcement : Evidence from US Retail

Bhattacharya, Vivek; Illanes, Gaston; Stillerman, David - 2023

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Maverick: Making sense of a conjecture of antitrust policy in the lab

Engel, Christoph; Ockenfels, Axel - 2013

Antitrust authorities all over the world are concerned if a particularly aggressive competitor, a maverick, is bought out of the market. One plausible determinant of acting as a maverick is behavioral: the maverick derives utility from acting competitively. We test this conjecture in the lab. In...

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