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Entry and Merger Policy

Laure Jaunaux, Yassine Lefouili, Wilfried Sand‐Zantman

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This note examines merger policy towards new entrants. We show that the optimal policy is driven by a simple sufficient statistic and that, under certain conditions, competition authorities should commit to being more lenient towards successful, rather than unsuccessful, entrants.

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This note examines merger policy towards new entrants. We show that the optimal policy is driven by a simple sufficient statistic and that, under certain conditions, competition authorities should commit to being more lenient towards successful, rather than unsuccessful, entrants.

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This note examines merger policy towards new entrants. We show that the optimal policy is driven by a simple sufficient statistic and that, under certain conditions, competition authorities should commit to being more lenient towards successful, rather than unsuccessful, entrants.

Key concepts: Commit, Competition policy, Ex-ante, Competition (biology), Economics, Profit (economics), Economic surplus, Microeconomics

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