Cost Efficiencies and Upward Pricing Pressure
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Keywords
upward pricing pressure; merger efficiency; monte carlo; UPP; mergers; antitrust; unilateral effects; cost efficiencies;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
- L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
- L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2019-02-04 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-IND-2019-02-04 (Industrial Organization)
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