IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/unl/unlfep/wp371.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Stable mergers and cartels involving asymmetric firms

Author

Listed:
  • Margarida Catalao Lopes

Abstract

The endogenous formation of coalitions involving asymmetric firms and their stability are analyzed as a function of diferences in eficiency and of the mixed cost of production. Results are derived for cartels as well as for mergers. Players have constant but diferent marginal costs of production and no rule of profit sharing is fixed. The analysis is illustrated for a specific path of collusion. Finally welfare effects are studied and some conclusions are drawn for antitrust policy.

Suggested Citation

  • Margarida Catalao Lopes, 1999. "Stable mergers and cartels involving asymmetric firms," Nova SBE Working Paper Series wp371, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:unl:unlfep:wp371
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://run.unl.pt/bitstream/10362/83642/1/WP371.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. M. Pilar Socorro, 2009. "R&D investment as a signal in corporate takeovers," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(5), pages 335-350.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:unl:unlfep:wp371. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Susana Lopes (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/feunlpt.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.