A Note on Upward Pricing Pressure:The possibility of false positives.

Farrell and Shapiro proposed a simple test of the possible upward pricing pressure (UPP) following a merger. They showed that the test may give false negatives, that is, indicate that a merger may not give an UPP, while a more comprehensive test would indicate the opposite. We show that their test applied to a case with asymmetric firms may give false positives.

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Year of publication:	2012-05-08
Authors:	Mathiesen, Lars ; Nilsen, Øivind Anti ; Sørgard, Lars
Institutions:	Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH)
Subject:	Unilateral merger effects \| post-merger price effects

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Discussion Paper Series in Economics.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series Discussion Paper Series in Economics Number 11/2012 8 pages
Classification:	K21 - Antitrust Law ; L41 - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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