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 …. Since retail mergers may have either local or national effects (or both) according to the level at which retail chains set …

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 …. Since retail mergers may have either local or national effects (or both) according to the level at which retail chains set …

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 …. Since retail mergers may have either local or national effects (or both) according to the level at which retail chains set …

There are legal grounds to hear competitors in merger control proceedings, and competitor involvement has gained … in EU merger cases and give an overview of the legal discussion in the EU and US. …

There are legal grounds to hear competitors in merger control proceedings, and competitor involvement has gained … in EU merger cases and give an overview of the legal discussion in the EU and US. …

This article identifies certain problems faced by parties to transnational merger transactions in view of the global … proliferation in recent years of competition (and, specifically, merger review) laws. After considering the pros and cons of merger … supranational competition authority under the aegis of the World Trade Organization. While rejecting the WTO as institutionally and …

We investigate agents' incentives to form mergers (or groups) by sharing their private information and the associated … horizontal/conglomerate merger games. A merger decreases the expected payoff of each merging agent if and only if the strategies … or too noisy information. Expected consumer and total welfare may increase after a horizontal/conglomerate merger or …