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Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
We study how operating efficiencies in horizontal mergers affect market reactions of merging firms' rivals, customers, and suppliers. We measure operating efficiency gains using projections disclosed by merging firms' insiders. Higher efficiency gains are associated with lower announcement returns to merging firms' rivals (due to increased equilibrium output of merging firms), higher returns to their customers (due to lower equilibrium price of merging firms' output), and higher returns to their suppliers (due to the merged firm's higher equilibrium demand for inputs). Our results suggest that the pass-through of efficiency gains along merging firms' supply chains is as important as the effects of post-merger changes in market power.
The Effects of Horizontal Merger Operating Efficiencies on Rivals, Customers, and Suppliers
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
We study how operating efficiencies in horizontal mergers affect market reactions of merging firms' rivals, customers, and suppliers. We measure operating efficiency gains using projections disclosed by merging firms' insiders. Higher efficiency gains are associated with lower announcement returns to merging firms' rivals (due to increased equilibrium output of merging firms), higher returns to their customers (due to lower equilibrium price of merging firms' output), and higher returns to their suppliers (due to the merged firm's higher equilibrium demand for inputs). Our results suggest that the pass-through of efficiency gains along merging firms' supply chains is as important as the effects of post-merger changes in market power.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
We study how operating efficiencies in horizontal mergers affect market reactions of merging firms' rivals, customers, and suppliers. We measure operating efficiency gains using projections disclosed by merging firms' insiders. Higher efficiency gains are associated with lower announcement returns to merging firms' rivals (due to increased equilibrium output of merging firms), higher returns to their customers (due to lower equilibrium price of merging firms' output), and higher returns to their suppliers (due to the merged firm's higher equilibrium demand for inputs). Our results suggest that the pass-through of efficiency gains along merging firms' supply chains is as important as the effects of post-merger changes in market power.
The Economic Assessment of Mergers Under European Competition Law
Author: Daniel Gore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107007720
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 559
Book Description
Provides a clear, concise and practical overview of the key economic techniques and evidence employed in European merger control.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107007720
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 559
Book Description
Provides a clear, concise and practical overview of the key economic techniques and evidence employed in European merger control.
Sources of Gains in Horizontal Mergers
Author: C. Edward Fee
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Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
We investigate the upstream and downstream product-market effects of a large sample of horizontal mergers and acquisitions from 1980-1997. We construct a dataset that identifies the corporate customers, suppliers, and rivals of the firms initiating horizontal mergers and use this dataset to examine announcement-related stock market revaluations and post-merger changes in operating performance. We find little evidence consistent with increased monopolistic collusion. However, we do find evidence consistent with improved productive efficiency and buying power as sources of gains to horizontal mergers. The nature of the buying power gains, i.e., rents from monopsonistic collusion or improved purchasing efficiency, is also investigated.
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Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
We investigate the upstream and downstream product-market effects of a large sample of horizontal mergers and acquisitions from 1980-1997. We construct a dataset that identifies the corporate customers, suppliers, and rivals of the firms initiating horizontal mergers and use this dataset to examine announcement-related stock market revaluations and post-merger changes in operating performance. We find little evidence consistent with increased monopolistic collusion. However, we do find evidence consistent with improved productive efficiency and buying power as sources of gains to horizontal mergers. The nature of the buying power gains, i.e., rents from monopsonistic collusion or improved purchasing efficiency, is also investigated.
Collusion and Efficiency in Horizontal Mergers
Author: Douglas J. Fairhurst
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
We explore the sources of gains in horizontal mergers by exploiting heterogeneity between the merging firms' geographic footprints. We calculate the geographic overlap between the bidder, target, and their rivals and customers to identify variation in the competitive impact of horizontal mergers. We document significantly positive rival reactions and negative customer reactions when the bidder and target operate in similar geographic regions, consistent with anticompetitive effects in these deals. We also exploit staggered changes in the political affiliation of state Attorneys General (AGs) to identify variation in local antitrust enforcement. We show that bidders avoid concentrating mergers when they operate in a high proportion of states with Democratic AGs, and Democratic AGs moderate the effects of concentrating mergers on local rivals and customers. Our evidence supports the argument that geographically-concentrating horizontal mergers are more likely to be anticompetitive. We also document a significant role of state-level AGs in the M&A regulatory process.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
We explore the sources of gains in horizontal mergers by exploiting heterogeneity between the merging firms' geographic footprints. We calculate the geographic overlap between the bidder, target, and their rivals and customers to identify variation in the competitive impact of horizontal mergers. We document significantly positive rival reactions and negative customer reactions when the bidder and target operate in similar geographic regions, consistent with anticompetitive effects in these deals. We also exploit staggered changes in the political affiliation of state Attorneys General (AGs) to identify variation in local antitrust enforcement. We show that bidders avoid concentrating mergers when they operate in a high proportion of states with Democratic AGs, and Democratic AGs moderate the effects of concentrating mergers on local rivals and customers. Our evidence supports the argument that geographically-concentrating horizontal mergers are more likely to be anticompetitive. We also document a significant role of state-level AGs in the M&A regulatory process.
Federal Trade Commission and United States Department of Justice Commentary on the Horizontal Merger Guidelines
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428953299
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428953299
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Predicting the Competitive Effects of Mergers by Listening to Customers
Author: Kenneth Heyer
Publisher:
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Category : Competition
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Competition
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Horizontal Mergers with Free-Entry
Author: Luis M. B. Cabral
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
I analyze the effects of a merger between two firms in a spatially differentiatedoligopoly. I make the crucial assumption that the industry is at a free-entry equilibriumboth before and after the merger. In particular, I allow for the possibility of entry subsequent to the merger. Not surprisingly, this possibility improves the effect of the merger on consumer welfare. More importantly, I show that post-merger entry dramatically shifts the perspective on cost efficiencies as a merger defense and asset sales as a remedy. Cost efficiencies (in the form of lower marginal cost) decreasethe likelihood of entry, and thus benefit consumers less than if entry conditions wereexogenously given. Likewise, by selling assets (stores) to potential rivals, merging firms effectively buy them oreg;,quot; that is, dissuade them from opening new stores, an effect that is detrimental to consumers.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
I analyze the effects of a merger between two firms in a spatially differentiatedoligopoly. I make the crucial assumption that the industry is at a free-entry equilibriumboth before and after the merger. In particular, I allow for the possibility of entry subsequent to the merger. Not surprisingly, this possibility improves the effect of the merger on consumer welfare. More importantly, I show that post-merger entry dramatically shifts the perspective on cost efficiencies as a merger defense and asset sales as a remedy. Cost efficiencies (in the form of lower marginal cost) decreasethe likelihood of entry, and thus benefit consumers less than if entry conditions wereexogenously given. Likewise, by selling assets (stores) to potential rivals, merging firms effectively buy them oreg;,quot; that is, dissuade them from opening new stores, an effect that is detrimental to consumers.
Horizontal Mergers and the Market Value of Rivals
Author: Michael Alvin Salinger
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Category : Consolidation and merger of corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Consolidation and merger of corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
The Impact of Horizontal Mergers on Rivals
Author: Joseph A. Clougherty
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Category : Competition
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Competition
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The Economics of the Antitrust Process
Author: M.B. Coate
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792397311
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This book focuses on the antitrust process and how that process affects the efficiency of antitrust law enforcement. The contributors share a wide range of experiences in the antitrust process, including academia, the legal environment, and both private and public sectors. The book deals first with merger activities, followed by non-merger enforcement initiatives and concludes with an examination of the future role of antitrust.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792397311
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This book focuses on the antitrust process and how that process affects the efficiency of antitrust law enforcement. The contributors share a wide range of experiences in the antitrust process, including academia, the legal environment, and both private and public sectors. The book deals first with merger activities, followed by non-merger enforcement initiatives and concludes with an examination of the future role of antitrust.