the literature on the highly debated Fisher Body/General Motors merger and suggest an explanation based on GM’s need to …

a merger to create value, it will usually be necessary that one or both parties is below minimum efficient scale or has … insight into a merger's true motives and its likelihood of creating value …

a merger among them. We show that when manufacturers distribute their products through multi-product retailers, a … manufacturers merger, although it leads to an increase in the wholesale prices, it can enhance product variety. The merger generated … products to consumers, a merger never results into more product variety. Still, both in the presence and in the absence of …

We study upstream horizontal mergers and their potential efficiency gains. We show that an upstream horizontal merger … and decreases wholesale prices when downstream competition is not too strong. Examining whether the merger’s potential …