Horizontal acquisitions and buying power: A product market analysis

Sugato Bhattacharyya and Amrita Nain

Journal of Financial Economics, 2011, vol. 99, issue 1, 97-115

Abstract: Horizontal mergers exert price pressure on dependent suppliers and adversely affect their performance. Consistent with the theory of countervailing power, concentrated suppliers and those with greater barriers to entry experience larger price declines after consolidation downstream. Time-series results suggest that consolidation in dependent supplier industries follows mergers in main customer industries, indicating that consolidation activity travels up the supply chain. The findings are broadly consistent with pervasive beliefs in the business community about the buying power effects of horizontal mergers.

Keywords: Takeovers; Mergers; Buying; power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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