Arbeitspapier

Structural remedies as a signalling device

We analyze the effects of structural remedies on merger activity in a Cournot oligopoly when the Antitrust Agency (AA) cannot observe a proposed merger's efficiency type. Provided the AA follows a consumer surplus standard, an efficient merger type is doomed to over-fix with its divestiture proposal in a pooling equilibrium, which is also possible under separation.

ISBN
978-3-86304-208-0
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: DICE Discussion Paper ; No. 209

Classification
Wirtschaft
Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
Antitrust Law
Subject
Remedies
Divestiture
Merger Control
Signalling

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus
Wey, Christian
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
(where)
Düsseldorf
(when)
2016

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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus
  • Wey, Christian
  • Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)

Time of origin

  • 2016

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