Download or read book Concentration Mergers and Public Policy written by Yale Brozen and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mergers Markets and Public Policy written by Giuliano Mussati and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GIULIANO MUSSATI Why do mergers occur, which are their effects on social welfare and which is the best economic policy toward them? These three questions have been puzzling industrial economists since the end of the last century when the first great merger wave has come about in the US. They have returned at the centre of the stage of the theoretical and empirical economic research during the last decade when merger and acquisition activity became one of the most evident firms' activities in all industrialised countries, being fostered by some general and country specific facts. These facts have been identified in the appearance of new financial instruments facilitating fund raising by firms, in the benevolent behaviour of the authorities in charge of competition policy during the Reagan administration in the US, while inter nal market completion has become a strong incentive for European firms to reach a true continental dimension in the UE through external growth. However a robust and univocal answer to these questions has not yet been found in spite of its importance not only from the theoretical point of view, but also from the normative one. In fact the correct identification of firms' motivations in pursuing merger and acquisition operations and of their consequences on social welfare would help the choice by administra tive authorities of different possible options in competition and industrial policies.
Download or read book Economic Concentration written by John Malcolm Blair and published by New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. This book was released on 1972 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a veteran of both the Bureau of Economics of the Federal Trade Commission and the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly during the 1960s, author Blair is an advocate. His advocacy of his position is clear, concise, and understandable: he favors strong antitrust laws and the stricter application of those laws to existing corporate structures, and this is his argument. First, it defines and discusses four types of economic concentration-market, vertical, conglomerate, and aggregate. Second, high concentration (as opposed to diffusion of control) is shown to be neither the necessary nor the "natural" state of the economy because "centrifugal" forces (eventual diseconomies of scale, growth, and technological change) constantly are chipping away at dominance and ossification. Third, it argues that the primary causes of high and rising concentration of various kinds are neither natural nor technological imperatives (economies of scale, technological change): rather, they are artificial and unnecessary "centripetal" factors, the most important being mergers, acquisitions, TV advertising, predation, and anticompetitive government policies of various kinds. The result, therefore, is a work rich in empirical information and skillful in interpreting and verifying new data and statistical approaches; moreover, it integrates a substantial quantity of data never attempted in this area in the past. In this sense it is an excellent contribution. No topic considered has been shortchanged, the treatment is competent. But the effort to cover the entire waterfront leaves several urgent questions: What can be done and where? How may we attempt new approaches to our subject? How may we first better convince the general public and Congress that, indeed, a strong antitrust policy is desirable?
Download or read book Mergers in Perspective written by Yale Brozen and published by American Enterprise Institute Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the appropriateness of mergers such as acquisitions of Conoco and Marathon Oil Corporation and of their impact on the American economy. The author argues in favour of a natural government merger policy. He believes that mergers do not result in an excessive concentration of the American economy, that the present restrictive policy is at odds with that of the countries with which the U.S. competes, that mergers may allow American companies to become large enough to compete effectively in international trade and improve the management of poorly managed assets.
Download or read book Media Concentration and Democracy written by C. Edwin Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firmly rooting its argument in democratic and economic theory, the book argues that a more democratic distribution of communicative power within the public sphere and a structure that provides safeguards against abuse of media power provide two of three primary arguments for ownership dispersal. It also shows that dispersal is likely to result in more owners who will reasonably pursue socially valuable journalistic or creative objectives rather than a socially dysfunctional focus on the 'bottom line'. The middle chapters answer those agents, including the Federal Communication Commission, who favor 'deregulation' and who argue that existing or foreseeable ownership concentration is not a problem. The final chapter evaluates the constitutionality and desirability of various policy responses to concentration, including strict limits on media mergers.
Download or read book Public Policy Toward Mergers in Food Retailing written by Willard Fritz Mueller and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mergers and Economic Efficiency Proceedings of a workshop and supplementary papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mergers and Economic Efficiency written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mergers and Economic Efficiency Industrial concentration mergers and growth written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Problems of Economic Policy Routledge Revivals written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Industrial Order written by Samuel Richardson Reid and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1976 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on industrial economics in the USA emphasizing merger trends, regulation and industrial policy in the public sector - discusses industrial structure, monopolys, public interest and the quality of life, etc., and includes a case study of the petroleum industry.
Download or read book The Evolution of Competition Law in New Zealand written by Rex Ahdar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern era of competition law in New Zealand began with the Commerce Act 1986. Since then, a steady and impressive corpus of case law had traversed all the usual major areas of antitrust law: cartels, resale price maintenance, exclusive dealing, tying, group boycotts, monopolization, mergers and acquisitions, exempted sectors, and the role of economic evidence. This volume explains the rationale for the various major reforms, the ongoing contestation between the Harvard and Chicago Schools of antitrust, and traces the developments of key concepts over the last 34 years. This title also explores systemic issues such as how well has New Zealand moulded its own competition law whilst nonetheless selectively drawing upon the policies, case law, and wisdom of foreign jurisdictions; how effectively has it faced the challenge of adapting its fledgling competition law to the reality of being a small, deregulated, open, and distant economy; and how successful was the application of competition law to utilities in the experimental era of 'light handed regulation'. Written by a New Zealand competition expert, this detailed, original, and comprehensive chronicle of New Zealand's competition law and policy draws together the common threads that mark the modern era and offers some predictions about how the next decades of New Zealand competition law might unfold.
Download or read book Mainstreams in Industrial Organization written by H.W. de Jong and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present two volumes contain the essays and part of the discussions as presented at the conference on Mainstreams in Industrial Organiza tion, held at the University of Amsterdam, 21-23 August 1985. The thema was chosen because the field of studies commonly designated "industrial organization" in the Anglo-Saxon countries, or "market theory" in Continental Europe, has experienced important alterations during the past decade. Partly this reflects changing theoretical views inside the field, in which shifts in the core concepts have occurred and different emphasis is laid on time-honoured views and results. Partly, critical views have been voiced from outside the field. As in all open scientific debate, they have to be weighed and, if necessary, taken into account. Partly also, diver gent developments in thinking between the Anglo-Saxon, European and Japanese areas need to be considered, because both the problems and the ways of approaching them still differ. The variety of views, theori~s and results is testimony to the vitality of this field of economics; variety is generated by the creative endeavours, from which the chaff is being beaten out by critical discussions. That is especially true for the concept of competition itself, which industrial organization economists are debating intensively.
Download or read book Mergers Policy Session written by United States. Federal Trade Commission. Office of Policy Planning and Evaluation and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mergers and Economic Efficiency Proceedings of a workshop and supplementary papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Policy Toward Mergers written by John Fred Weston and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Mergers in the Growth of Large Firms written by John Fred Weston and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
