Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A.; Müller, Wieland - 2005
The seminal paper by Salant, Switzer and Reynolds (1983) showed that merger in a standard Cournot framework with linear … demand and linear costs is not profitable unless a large majority of the firms are involved in the merger. However, many … recurring to cost savings of merger. Firms interact with each other, with customers, suppliers, their owners, and with …
