Mergers with Future Rivals Can Boost Prices, Intensify Market Concentration, and Bar Entry
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Keywords
pharmaceutical; entry barrier; merger; future rival; fringe firm;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
- L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2022-05-30 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-REG-2022-05-30 (Regulation)
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