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Non-horizontal mergers with investments into compatibility

Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen; Padilla, Atilano Jorge - 2019

We set up a model to analyze the effects of mergers between sellers of complementary components where firms invest in …

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Price or variety? : an evaluation of mergers effects in grocery retailing

Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Cervone, Roberto; … - 2018

Assortment decisions are key strategic instruments for firms responding to local market conditions. We assess this claim by studying the effect of a national merger between two large Dutch supermarket chains on prices and on the depth as well as composition of assortment. We adopt a...

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The effect of mergers on variety in grocery retailing

Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Cervone, Roberto; … - 2021

We study the effect of a merger between two Dutch supermarket chains to assess its effect on the depth as well as composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in the merger's effects, controlling for selection on observables through a...

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On the effects of mergers on equilibrium outcomes in a common property renewable asset oligopoly

Benchekroun, Hassan; Gaudet, Gérard - 2014

. That includes mergers that are known to be unprofitable in the corresponding static equilibrium framework. …

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Market concentration and product variety under spatial competition : evidence from retail gasoline : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Recent Developments in Anti-Trust Analysis, July 2004

Goetz, Georg; Gugler, Klaus - 2004

We show that for a spatially differentiated economy reduced product variety is the likely outcome of mergers except in …

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Competition and innovation in automobile markets

Ghosal, Vivek; Ni, Jiayao - 2015

Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the US market's economic importance, market dynamics, and the significant...

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Competition and mergers with strategic data intermediaries

Bounie, David; Dubus, Antoine; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2021

We analyze competition between data intermediaries collecting information on consumers, which they sell to firms for price discrimination purposes. We show that competition between data intermediaries benefits consumers by increasing competition between firms, and by reducing the amount of...

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Innovation and startup acquisition

Bourreau, Marc; Gautier, Axel - 2024

. We show that allowing acquisitions stimulates platform innovation, but at the cost of a more concentrated market …

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A simple model of mergers and innovation

Federico, Giulio; Langus, Gregor; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2017

We analyze the impact of a merger on firms' incentives to innovate. We show that the merging parties always decrease their innovation efforts post-merger while the outsiders to the merger respond by increasing their effort. A merger tends to reduce overall innovation. Consumers are always worse...

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Mergers in the digital economy

Gautier, Axel; Lamesch, Joe - 2020

these multi-sided companies along with each company’s most important market segments. We then track their mergers and … acquisitions and match them with the segments. This exercise shows that these five firms use M&A activity mostly to strengthen …, therefore, acquisition appears to be a substitute for in-house R&D. Finally, from our check for possible "killer acquisitions …

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