RETAIL MERGERS AND FOOD PRICES: EVIDENCE FROM FRANCE *

Marie-Laure Allain, Claire Chambolle (), Stéphane Turolla and Sofia Villas-Boas
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Claire Chambolle: ALISS - Alimentation et sciences sociales - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, CREST - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique - ENSAI - Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse de l'Information [Bruz] - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - ENSAE Paris - École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This paper analyzes the impact of a merger in the French supermarket industry on food prices. Using consumer panel data, we compare the changes in prices for merging and rival firms in affected and comparison markets. We use a novel definition of affected markets when some firms have a local pricing strategy and others a more centralized pricing strategy. We find that prices increase significantly following the merger, and that the merging firms lose market shares. For the rivals, the price increases are larger in local markets, in which concentration increased and differentiation changed after the merger. * We thank the Editor and two anonymous referees for their very valuable comments. We also thank

Date: 2017-09-30
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Published in Journal of Industrial Economics, 2017, ⟨10.1111/joie.12153⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/joie.12153

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