Mergers as an environmental ally: 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 losses; Policy uncertainty.;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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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2021-02-01 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-ENE-2021-02-01 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2021-02-01 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-IND-2021-02-01 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-REG-2021-02-01 (Regulation)
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