1. This paper discusses the framework within which mergers are assessed. It begins by considering the purpose of merger control. Without clear objectives for merger control, it is difficult to formulate an appropriate analytical framework. The paper then briefly reviews the relationship between jurisdiction and the analytical framework, before exploring some of the issues relating to the analyt...

The question of what impact mergers and acquisitions have on key equilibrium performance measures is fundamental to our understanding of competitive dynamics in an oligopolistic industry. We address these questions in the context of price competition models with differentiated goods and asymmetric firms allowing for general non-linear demand and cost functions merely assuming that both the prea...

Recent advances in the description of compact binary systems have produced gravitational waveforms that include inspiral, merger and ring-down phases. Comparing results from numerical simulations with those of post-Newtonian (PN), and related, expansions has provided motivation for employing PN waveforms in near merger epochs when searching for gravitational waves and has encouraged the develop...

In hospital merger cases, the courts have often based geographic market areas on patient flow criteria. Given patient heterogeneity and the importance of distance to hospital and health plan restrictions on hospital choice, Capps et al. (2003a) show that potential market power effects can be understated. While willingness-to-pay(WTP) measures derived from individual choice models provide an alt...

We use a combination of deep, high angular resolution imaging data from the HST/ACS GOODS survey and ground based near-IR Ks images to derive the evolution of the galaxy major merger rate in the redshift range 0.2 z 1.2. We select galaxies on the sole basis of their J-band rest-frame, absolute magnitude, which is a good tracer of the stellar mass. We find steep evolution with redshift, with the...

This paper starts from a recent case to study how merger analysis in Europe may potentially be improved through simulation analysis. Starting from the geographic market definition in the Merger Decision, we formulate and estimate an oligopoly model with differentiated products. The model is simulated to account for the changed multiproduct ownership structure after the merger. We show how our f...

The goal of this study is to develop a real-time personalized digital name card typesetting system with seamless operability across various platforms. The system includes an authentication module, a template selection module, a text typesetting and merger module, a frame selection and merger module, and a QR code generator and merger module. The system authentication module proposes a potential...

We employ N-body, smoothed particle hydrodynamical simulations, including detailed treatment of chemical enrichment, to follow a gas-rich merger which results in a galaxy with disk morphology. We trace the kinematic, structural, and chemical properties of stars formed before, during, and after the merger. We show that such a merger produces two exponential disk components, with the older, hotte...

This paper starts from a recent case to study how merger analysis in Europe may potentially be improved through simulation analysis. Starting from the geographic market definition in the Merger Decision, we formulate and estimate an oligopoly model with differentiated products. The model is simulated to account for the changed multiproduct ownership structure after the merger. We show how our f...

Facilitating Inclusive Identity: HR Practices, Perceived Fairness, and Intergroup Cognitions in Corporate Mergers. (August, 2003) Shung Jae Shin, B.A., Seoul National University; M.B.A., University of Sydney Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Angelo S. DeNisi Based on social identity theory, self-categorization theory, and justice theories, this study proposed a theoretical framework for studying...