Författare: Sven-Olof FridolfssonÅr: 2007
Publikation:
The Political Economy of Antitrust
Kapitel: 11Redaktör: Vivek Ghosal and Johan StennekFörlag: ElsevierFörlagsort: Amsterdam
Sidor: 287–302
A government wanting to promote an efficient allocation of resources as measured by the total surplus, should strategically delegate to its competition authority a welfare standard with a bias in favor of consumers. A consumer bias means that some welfare increasing mergers will be blocked. This is optimal, if the relevant alternative to the merger is another change in market structure that will even further increase the total surplus. Furthermore, a consumer bias is shown to enhance welfare even though it blocks some welfare increasing mergers when the relevant alternative is the status quo.
Referens:
Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof (2007),
"A Consumer Surplus Defense in Merger Control".
Kapitel 11,
sid.
287–302
i
Vivek Ghosal and Johan Stennek, red.,
The Political Economy of Antitrust.
Amsterdam:
Elsevier.