Mergers

D. P. O’Brien, W. S. Howe, D. M. Wright and R. J. O’Brien
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D. P. O’Brien: University of Durham
W. S. Howe: Dundee College of Technology
D. M. Wright: University of Nottingham
R. J. O’Brien: University of Southampton

Chapter 6 in Competition Policy, Profitability and Growth, 1979, pp 69-101 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the previous study1 it became clear that mergers frequently occurred in industries which had been affected by competition policy. Indeed, the overwhelming impression left by the Case Studies was that they were often resorted to by industries deprived of price agreements. But it was not possible to draw firm conclusions about this because the mergers which were observed occurred during a period of historically high merger activity.2 It therefore seemed desirable, in our present study, to test whether the industries affected by competition policy were in fact more merger-prone than other industries.

Keywords: Competition Policy; Expenditure Ratio; Residual Standard Deviation; Asset Size; Multiple Classification Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04483-2_6

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