On merger profitability in a cournot setting
Zeitschrift:
Working papers = Documentos de trabajo: Serie AD
Datum der Publikation: 1997
Nummer: 3
Art: Arbeitsdokument
Zusammenfassung
In a setting where symmetric firms compete a la Cournot and costs are linear, the degree of concavity is identified as the main determinant of merger profitability. This allows to generalize the results in Salant et al (1983) and Cheung (1992).