This paper investigates firms’ post-merger product repositioning. We compile information on conglomerate firms’ additions and removals of products for a sample of 61 mergers and acquisitions across a wide variety of consumer packaged goods markets. We find that mergers lead to a net...

In a market for differentiated products, firms have the ability to collude on the choice of products offered in addition to or in lieu of colluding on the prices charged for those products. However, the empirical literature has only considered price collusion. This paper proposes a methodology...