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This paper studies the coordinated effects of the merger between American Airlines and USAirways by examining the … extent to which the connecting prices of the nonmerging legacy carriers(Delta and United) evolved when the merger eliminated … potential importance of connecting services in merger analysis in the airlineindustry …
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This article aims at studying the economic dimension of the bargaining process in merger control by using the latest … results from the literature. After recalling the classic typology of merger remedies, we look at what is at stake in the … negotiation between merging parties and the competition authority. The tradeoff between merger remedies, efficiency gains expected …
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collusion hypothesis, rivals of the merging firms benefit from the merger since successful collusion limits output and raises …
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the results in the existing merger literature on integrated markets). Although the sum of consumer surplus across the …
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effects of the Carlsberg-Pripps merger in the Swedish beer market and compare the predicted outcomes with those observed ex …-post. There are no important price increases following the merger and prices of divested beers fell. Our merger simulations, that …
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I set up an endogenous merger model in which, whenever fi rms agree to join in a coalition, the new entity acquires the … leadership in a symmetric Cournot oligopoly. I first explore the case of a single merger and show that, despite being such merger … coalition or an n - 1-fi rm coalition. I then allow for multiple coalitions and show that merger waves often occur as a fi rms …
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This paper analyzes a merger of large manufacturers with divestiture in the French coffee market. In contrast to …
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Previous work on exit in declining industries has neglected mergers. We examine a simple model that predicts which declining industries experience horizontal mergers. Mergers are more likely if 1) market concentration is high; 2) the inverse demand curve is steep at high levels of output and...
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that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for 1,014 mergers affecting 12,325 antitrust markets scrutinized by the … concerns about the Commission's merger enforcement being too lax. …
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that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for 1,014 mergers affecting 12,325 antitrust markets scrutinized by the … concerns about the Commission’s merger enforcement being too lax. …
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