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Efficiency gains and structural remedies in merger control

dc.contributor.authorVasconcelos, Hélder
dc.date.accessioned2010-11-23T14:23:50Z
dc.date.available2010-11-23T14:23:50Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThis paper studies the role of structural remedies in merger control in a Cournot setting where (endogenous) mergers are motivated by prospective efficiency gains and must be submitted to an Antitrust Authority (AA) which might require partial divestiture for approval. From a merger policy perspective, this paper’s main contribution is two-fold. First, it shows that if mergers do not involve all firms in the industry, then merger remedies help the AA to increase consumer surplus only if assets are divested to competitors already in the market. Second, it presents a model which clarifies that there can only exist social costs to ‘over-fixing’ the anticompetitive effects of a merger if merger review policy treats mergers as one-time events. When a more dynamic view is taken of sequential merger review, then there can never be an ‘over-fixing’ problem. In this case, however, remedies are shown to be needed to make myopic merger review optimal.por
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dc.identifier.citationVASCONCELOS, Hélder - Efficiency gains and structural remedies in merger control. The journal of industrial economics. ISSN 0022-1821. Vol. LVIII, nº 4 (2010)p, 1-25por
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-6451.2010.00436.x
dc.identifier.eid78650562756
dc.identifier.issn0022-1821
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/3603
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.publisherWileypor
dc.titleEfficiency gains and structural remedies in merger controlpor
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.issue4
oaire.citation.titleJournal of Industrial Economics
oaire.citation.volume58
person.familyNameVasconcelos
person.givenNameHelder
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person.identifier.ciencia-id731D-7968-08ED
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-2584-4352
person.identifier.scopus-author-id9436106000
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