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Mergers in a Cournot Setting : Profitability and Welfare

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  • Fauli-Oller, Ramon

    (UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES))

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Us Merger Guidelines consider that the anticompetitive effects of a horizontal merger is increasing in the initial market concentration and decreasing in the elasticity of demand. These ideas are studied in a setting where identical firms compete à la Cournot and marginal cost is constant. The first relationship holds if demand is convex and the second if the elasticity of demand is a good proxy for the degree of concavity.

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  • Fauli-Oller, Ramon, 1995. "Mergers in a Cournot Setting : Profitability and Welfare," LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES 1995032, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES).
    • Handle: RePEc:ctl:louvir:1995032
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