The Union Pacific/Southern Pacific Rail Merger: A Retrospective on Merger Benefits

Breen Denis A. ()
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Breen Denis A.: Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission

Review of Network Economics, 2004, vol. 3, issue 3, 40

Abstract: This retrospective case study of merger efficiencies focuses on the 1996 merger of two large, U.S. rail networks. Information on the public record permits some evaluation of pre-merger efficiency claims, and the weighing of those claims against regulatory and antitrust standards. Access to additional public and non-public information also permits at least a preliminary determination that a number of the claimed efficiencies were plausibly merger-specific and actually realized post-merger. This is contrary to skepticism expressed about merger efficiency claims, both generally and with respect to this particular rail merger, and thereby illustrates the value of doing retrospective studies of merger outcomes.

Date: 2004
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