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Mergers in Durable Goods Industries

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  • Sagasta Elorza, Amagoia
  • Saracho de la Torre, Ana Isabel

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This paper is concerned with the study of durability as an aspect of competition and market structure that contributes to determining the incentives for mergers. We find that relative to the incentives in industries that produce non-durable goods the durability of the good produced by an industry enhances the incentive for mergers in the presence of intertemporal consistency problems. Further, the analysis indicates that in durable good markets a good antitrust policy should combine a restriction to rent solely with a prudent merger policy.

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  • Sagasta Elorza, Amagoia & Saracho de la Torre, Ana Isabel, 2004. "Mergers in Durable Goods Industries," DFAEII Working Papers 1988-088X, University of the Basque Country - Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II.
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    2. Kai A.Konrad, 2010. "Merger Profitability in Industries with Brand Portfolios and Loyal Customers," Korean Economic Review, Korean Economic Association, vol. 26, pages 5-26.
    3. Evangelos Rouskas & Stylianos Xanthopoulos, 2025. "Exogenous Versus Endogenous Consumer Time Preferences: Oligopoly," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 66(2), pages 211-231, February.
    4. Gerstle, Ari D. & Waldman, Michael, 2016. "Mergers in durable-goods industries: A re-examination of market power and welfare effects," Research in Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(4), pages 677-692.
    5. Amagoia Sagasta, 2019. "Cooperative R&D with durable goods," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 128(3), pages 239-258, December.
    6. Evangelos Rouskas, 2023. "Mergers, multiperiod Cournot competition, and Coasian dynamics," Bulletin of Economic Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 75(2), pages 270-286, April.

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