Second, the law-study provides an analysis of the conditions under which potential competition or a particular potential competitor will be effective, which is relevant to the determination of whether
conglomerate mergers that eliminate a potential competitor will tend to yield Sherman-Act-illicit profits and reduce competition on that account.
i) Mueller, D.C., The Effects of
Conglomerate Mergers ...
Another explanation for
conglomerate mergers is that buyers were motivated by earnings-per-share (EPS) manipulation.
The creation of EU is a result of
conglomerate mergers. A long period of wars; religion, balance of power, two world wars, have influenced supremacies to compromise in the common interest.
Although
conglomerate mergers and horizontal mergers have been the focus of many studies, ours is one of the few papers that examine vertical mergers.
Conglomerate mergers rarely raise antitrust concerns, and present no peril to competition.
The European Commission has adopted new guidelines to explain better to companies how the Commission will analyse the impact of so-called vertical or
conglomerate mergers on competition, announced European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes on 28 November.
The premier issue includes articles on fund governance, mutual fund governance, alternative structures and strategies for investors, late trading and market timing, an overview of The Martin Act, proxy voting, theories on the rise of
conglomerate mergers, and an overview of investor rights.
and the EC on
conglomerate mergers and their anticompetitive effects.
Primarily focusing on horizontal mergers--although discussing vertical and
conglomerate mergers in cases when the producers of complementary goods are involved--the text discusses the economic modeling of mergers in a variety of contexts, ranging from simple cases where symmetric firms selling a homogeneous product have to decide how much to produce to more complicated cases, such as environments in which strategic decisions such as cost reducing investments or advertising are taken by the competing firms or mergers involving sellers of complements.