We study the incentives towards horizontal merger among firms when the amount of capital is the strategic variable. We focus on workers' cooperatives, but our conclusions apply also to employment‐constrained profit maximizers. Within a simple oligopoly model, we prove that the horizontal merger, for any merger size, is: (i) privately efficient for insiders as well as for outsiders; (ii) socially efficient if market size is large enough, even in the case of merger to monopoly.

Horizontal Mergers with Capital Adjustment: Workers' Cooperatives and the Merger Paradox / Flavio Delbono; Luca Lambertini. - In: ANNALS OF PUBLIC AND COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS. - ISSN 1370-4788. - STAMPA. - 87:4(2016), pp. 529-539. [10.1111/apce.12125]

Horizontal Mergers with Capital Adjustment: Workers' Cooperatives and the Merger Paradox

DELBONO, FLAVIO;LAMBERTINI, LUCA
2016

Abstract

We study the incentives towards horizontal merger among firms when the amount of capital is the strategic variable. We focus on workers' cooperatives, but our conclusions apply also to employment‐constrained profit maximizers. Within a simple oligopoly model, we prove that the horizontal merger, for any merger size, is: (i) privately efficient for insiders as well as for outsiders; (ii) socially efficient if market size is large enough, even in the case of merger to monopoly.
2016
Horizontal Mergers with Capital Adjustment: Workers' Cooperatives and the Merger Paradox / Flavio Delbono; Luca Lambertini. - In: ANNALS OF PUBLIC AND COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS. - ISSN 1370-4788. - STAMPA. - 87:4(2016), pp. 529-539. [10.1111/apce.12125]
Flavio Delbono; Luca Lambertini
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