Effect of Research and Development and Market Concentration on Merger Outcomes -- An Event Study of U.S. Horizontal Mergers
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mergers; Research and Development; Strategic Protection; market concentration; event study;NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2009-12-05 (All new papers)
- NEP-BEC-2009-12-05 (Business Economics)
- NEP-INO-2009-12-05 (Innovation)
- NEP-TID-2009-12-05 (Technology & Industrial Dynamics)
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