eprintid: 16470
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creators_name: Cavagnac, Michel
creators_name: Cheikbossian, Guillaume
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title: Merger, Product Differentiation, and Trade Policy
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subjects: subjects_ECO
abstract: In a two-stage game with three firms and two countries, we study the profitability of
a domestic merger in the context of an international oligopoly game with differentiated products and in a strategic trade policy environment. In contrast to a completely unregulated economy, we show that the domestic merger under Cournot competition is always profitable to the host country irrespective of the degree of product differentiation. Furthermore, it is also profitable to the competing country - hosting one firm only if products are sufficiently differentiated. Under Bertrand competition the merger is always profitable to both countries independently of the
product range rivalry. But in a strategic trade environment it is more profitable to the country in which the merger occurs than to the other country.
date: 2013-04
date_type: published
publisher: LERNA Working Paper
official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/27150
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subjectsJEL: JEL_D43
subjectsJEL: JEL_F12
subjectsJEL: JEL_F13
subjectsJEL: JEL_L13
view_date_year: 2013
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: working_paper
series: LERNA Working Paper
volume: 13.06.393
book_title: LERNA Working Paper
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citation:   Cavagnac, Michel <https://www.idref.fr/032609140> and Cheikbossian, Guillaume <https://www.idref.fr/066955815>  (2013) Merger, Product Differentiation, and Trade Policy.  LERNA Working Paper, n. 13.06.393     
document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/16470/1/strategic-trade-avril-final-mine-2013.pdf