According to the well-known “merger paradoxâ€, in a Cournot market game mergers are generally unprofitable unless … most firms merge. The present paper proposes an optimal merger mechanism. With this mechanism mergers are never …

strategies of mergers and acquisitions. …

to assess the welfare implications of proposed mergers and partial divestitures. …

In this paper we study mergers in two-sided industries. While mergers have been studied extensively in traditional … examining mergers in these markets. We present a model that shows that mergers in two-sided markets may not necessarily lead to … higher prices for either side of the market. We test our conclusions by examining a spate of mergers in the Canadian …

This study is undertaken to investigate the extent to which mergers lead to efficiency by which services are provided …

The theoretical literature suggests that there should be a bi-directional relationship between investment and mergers … in high-income countries, cross-border mergers tend to Granger cause investment, while in low- to middle-income countries …, investment Granger causes mergers. …