This paper empirically evaluates the price effects of the merger of two major book retail chains in the UK: Waterstone … information on a sample of 200 books sold in 60 stores in 50 different local markets for a period of four years around the merger … prices, we undertake an ex-post assessment of the impact of the merger at both levels. At the local level, we compare the …

This paper empirically evaluates the price effects of the merger of two major book retail chains in the UK: Waterstone … information on a sample of 200 books sold in 60 stores in 50 different local markets for a period of four years around the merger … prices, we undertake an ex-post assessment of the impact of the merger at both levels. At the local level, we compare the …

This paper empirically evaluates the price effects of the merger of two major book retail chains in the UK: Waterstone … information on a sample of 200 books sold in 60 stores in 50 different local markets for a period of four years around the merger … prices, we undertake an ex-post assessment of the impact of the merger at both levels. At the local level, we compare the …

This paper empirically evaluates the effects of a merger between the two largest book retail chains in the UK. We build … difference-in-differences techniques to assess the impact of the merger. A key feature of the books market is that titles become … obsolete very quickly. Therefore, we compare different titles before and after the merger in an hedonic approach. Since retail …

This paper empirically evaluates the price effects of the merger of two major book retail chains in the UK: Waterstone … information on a sample of 200 books sold in 60 stores in 50 different local markets for a period of four years around the merger … prices, we undertake an ex-post assessment of the impact of the merger at both levels. At the local level, we compare the …

This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first … that create important challenges for competition policy. We show that these features have been key determinants of the … theories of harm in major merger cases in the past few years. We then analyse the characteristics of almost 300 acquisitions …

This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first … that create important challenges for competition policy. We show that these features have been key determinants of the … theories of harm in major merger cases in the past few years. We then analyse the characteristics of almost 300 acquisitions …

affecting both the EU and the UK will lose the benefit of the “one stop shop” under the EU Merger Regulation (EUMR) and the … under the EUMR. Instead, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) must decide whether and how to deal with those …