claim by studying the effect of a national merger between two large Dutch supermarket chains on prices and on the depth as … merger's effects, controlling for selection on observables when defining our control group through a matching procedure. We … show that the local change in competitive conditions due to the merger did not affect individual products' prices but it …

) generate efficiencies that are reflected in a post- merger reduction in audit hours but not audit quality. Mergers benefit …

claim by studying the effect of a national merger between two large Dutch supermarket chains on prices and on the depth as … merger’s effects, controlling for selection on observables when defining our control group through a matching procedure. We … show that the local change in competitive conditions due to the merger did not affect individual products’ prices but it …

claim by studying the effect of a national merger between two large Dutch supermarket chains on prices and on the depth as … merger's effects, controlling for selection on observables when defining our control group through a matching procedure. We … show that the local change in competitive conditions due to the merger did not affect individual products' prices but it …

Unlike most retrospective merger studies that only focus on price effects, we also estimate the impact of a merger on … product variety. We use an original dataset on Dutch supermarkets to assess the effect of a merger that was conditionally … approved by the Dutch Competition Authority (ACM) on prices and the depth of assortment. We find that the merger did not affect …

claim by studying the effect of a national merger between two large Dutch supermarket chains on prices and on the depth as … merger’s effects, controlling for selection on observables when defining our control group through a matching procedure. We … show that the local change in competitive conditions due to the merger did not affect individual products’ prices but it …