Merger Policy to Promote ‘Global Players’? A Simple Model
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- Andreas Haufler & Søren Bo Nielsen, 2008. "Merger policy to promote 'global players'? A simple model," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 60(3), pages 517-545, July.
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merger policy; international trade;JEL classification:
- F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
- H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism
- L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2005-10-04 (Industrial Competition)
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