Horizontal mergers: a solution of the insiders' dilemma

DOI10.1111/J.1467-8586.2009.00322.XzbMATH Open1202.91178OpenAlexW2100694489MaRDI QIDQ3553244FDOQ3553244

Authors: Berardino Cesi 

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Bulletin of Economic Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8586.2009.00322.x

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zbMATH Keywords

horizontal mergersinsiders' dilemmastick and carrot strategy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multistage and repeated games (91A20) Special types of economic markets (including Cournot, Bertrand) (91B54)

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• On merger profitability in a Cournot setting
• Extremal equlibria of oligopolistic supergames
• Big fish eat small fish: on merger in Stackelberg markets
• The insiders' dilemma: An experiment on merger formation

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