Mergers and Acquisitions in Mixed-Oligopoly Markets

German Coloma ()

International Journal of Business and Economics, 2006, vol. 5, issue 2, 147-159

Abstract: This paper develops an oligopoly model with firms that may potentially be state-owned or privately owned and solves it for different cases in which the number and ownership of those firms vary. The results are then compared in terms of total surplus and consumer surplus, and this comparison produces implications for the antitrust appraisal of possible mergers and acquisitions. It follows that certain types of mergers are unambiguously favorable or unfavorable from the point of view of their contribution to both total and consumer surplus, while others may be beneficial in one of those dimensions but harmful in the other dimension.

Keywords: mergers and acquisitions; mixed oligopoly; public enterprise (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D43 L33 L44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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