Quantifying the effects from horizontal mergers in European competition policy

International Journal of Industrial Organization

Volumn 23, Issue 9-10, 2005, Pages 669-691

  Ivaldi, Marc ^a,c,d,e   Verboven, Frank ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c EHESS Toulouse   (France)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^e Toulouse School of Economics   (France)

Author keywords

Competition policy; Differentiated product markets; Merger analysis; Nested logit models

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COMPETITION POLICY; DIFFERENTIATED PRODUCT MARKETS; MERGER ANALYSIS; NESTED LOGIC MODELS;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 28044458723     PISSN: 01677187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2005.08.004     Document Type: Article

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