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Merger Guidelines for Bidding Markets

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  • Philippe Gagnepain
  • David Martimort

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We propose merger guidelines for bidding markets through the construction of a simple test. It is applied in the particular context of the French urban transport industry. It designs the optimal auction and captures two opposite forces at stake: on the one hand, the optimal auction is biased against a merger due to a loss of competition; on the other hand, potential efficiency gains bias the optimal allocation towards the merger firm. The two effects can be nested in a single equation condition which determines whether the merger improves the consumer net surplus. We suggest that the merger between Transdev and Veolia is consumer surplus improving if the efficiency gains from the merger allow both firms to decrease their initial costs inability by at least 17.9% and 17.8% respectively.

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  • Philippe Gagnepain & David Martimort, 2016. "Merger Guidelines for Bidding Markets," Revue économique, Presses de Sciences-Po, vol. 67(HS1), pages 69-78.
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    1. Aguiar, Luis & Gagnepain, Philippe, 2022. "Absorptive capacity, knowledge spillovers and incentive contracts," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).

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