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Did Antitrust Policy Cause the Great Merger Wave?

1985; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 28; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1086/467076

1537-5285

George Bittlingmayer,

Merger and Competition Analysis

Previous articleNext article No AccessDid Antitrust Policy Cause the Great Merger Wave?George BittlingmayerGeorge BittlingmayerPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Law and Economics Volume 28, Number 1Apr., 1985 Sponsored by The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and The University of Chicago Law School Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/467076 Views: 59Total views on this site Citations: 70Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1985 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Zeynep Ançel İlaslan, Başak Tanyeri-Günsür M&A activity during the COVID-19 pandemic, Applied Economics Letters 76 (May 2023): 1–7.https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2023.2216434Alexander Donges, Felix Selgert, Jochen Streb Patent Litigation in the German Empire, SSRN Electronic Journal 29 (Jan 2023).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4622736Carly R Knight Classifying the corporation: the role of naturalizing analogies in American corporate development, 1870–1930, Socio-Economic Review 28 (Aug 2022).https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwac039Minggui Yu, Yujing Huang, Huijie Zhong, Qing Zhang Monopoly and corporate innovation: evidence from antitrust law, Nankai Business Review International 13, no.11 (Oct 2021): 58–78.https://doi.org/10.1108/NBRI-03-2021-0019Claude d'Aspremont, Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira Modelling the Intensity of Competition, (Jan 2021): 1–33.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63602-9_1Giacinta Cestone, Jiaying Li, Paolo F. 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