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

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

mergers and acquisitions among already powerful retail chains. These considerationslead antitrust authorities to very … study for the Dutch Autoriteit Consument & Markt (ACM), we examined the effects of a series of three national mergers in the … mergers did not have significant effects on prices. However, we find that the last mergersignificantly reduced the depth of …

We use a sample of 167 mergers during the period 1990-2002 involving 544 firms either as merging firms or competitors …. We contrast a measure of the merger’s profitability based on event studies with one based on accounting data. We find …

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

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