caa a22 4500 606165827 CHVBK 20210128100655.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00168-015-0666-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00168-015-0666-0 Privatization and merger in a mixed oligopoly with spatial price discrimination [Elektronische Daten] [Guangliang Ye, Wenbin Wu] This paper is the first to investigate the impact of the presence of a public firm on the profitability of two-firm mergers in a spatial price discrimination model. The presence of the public firm may increase the set of mergers for two private firms to profitably merge. Merger increases social welfare in the presence of a public follower alone. However, privatizing the public firm never increases social welfare. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 Ye Guangliang School of Economics, Antitrust and Competition Policy Center, Hanqing Advanced Institute of Economics and Finance, Renmin University of China, 59 Zhongguancun Street, 100872, Beijing, China aut Wu Wenbin Department of Economics, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., 92093-0508, La Jolla, CA, USA aut The Annals of Regional Science Springer Berlin Heidelberg 54/2(2015-03-01), 561-576 0570-1864 54:2<561 2015 54 168 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-015-0666-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-015-0666-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ye Guangliang School of Economics, Antitrust and Competition Policy Center, Hanqing Advanced Institute of Economics and Finance, Renmin University of China, 59 Zhongguancun Street, 100872, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wu Wenbin Department of Economics, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., 92093-0508, La Jolla, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Annals of Regional Science Springer Berlin Heidelberg 54/2(2015-03-01), 561-576 0570-1864 54:2<561 2015 54 168