On merger profitability in a cournot setting
Journal:
Working papers = Documentos de trabajo: Serie AD
Year of publication: 1997
Issue: 3
Type: Working paper
Abstract
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).