Efficiency gains from mergers

European Merger Control: Do We Need an Efficiency Defence?

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 84-201

  Röller, Lars Hendrik ^a   Stennek, Johan ^b   Verboven, Frank ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Stockholm and CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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