Environmental policy helping antitrust decisions: Socially excessive and insufficient merger approvals
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Keywords
Socially excessive/insufficient mergers; Product differentiation; Cost asymmetry; Pollution intensity; Emission fees; Antitrust authorities; Environmental regulation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
- Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General
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