CONSÉQUENCES ADVERSES POUR LES CONSOMMATEURS ET POUR LES CONCURRENTS D'UNE FUSION AU-DESSUS DE TOUT SOUPÇON

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  • Tarcisio B. DA GRAÇA

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.48382/IMIST.PRSM/regs-v1i37.38069

Mots-clés :

Mergers, antitrust, complementary goods.

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It is generally accepted that mergers between firms in complementary goods markets do not raise competition concerns. Thus, authorities question them only in exceptional circumstances. An alternative perspective is offered in a model of price competition in an oligopolistic industry with differentiated and complementary goods. Due to the bundling of goods of the merged firms, consumer surplus (CS) decreases after the merger for half of the cases in the model. On average, over all cases, there is a loss of CS.

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16-02-2023

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