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- Strategic Policy And International Economic Integration

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José J. Sempere Monerris () (Universitat de València)
Rafael Moner Colonques () (Universitat de València)
Amparo Urbano (Universitat de València)

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In a context of economic integration, we analyse the strategic effect of wo policies: merger policy and state aid policy. When governments play a Stackelberg policy game before firms compete in the market we find that: a) only under certain conditions, the leader country chooses a merger policy and, b) there is a policy equivalence in welfare terms for the follower. A centralised policy decision is welfare improving relative to the strategic policy game and equals total welfare of the area under autarky. Besides, there always exists a social incentive to propose mergers and both, the state aid level and the state aid expenditure, are lower.

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Paper provided by Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie) in its series Working Papers. Serie AD with number 1999-05.

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Date of creation: Apr 1999
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Keywords: Merger policy; state aid; market enlargement;

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