Mergers and innovation: Evidence from the hard disk drive market

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Bennato, Anna Rita, Davies, Stephen, Mariuzzo, Franco and Ormosi, Peter (2021) Mergers and innovation: Evidence from the hard disk drive market. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 77. ISSN 0167-7187

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Abstract

This paper is a retrospective evaluation of how innovation changed following mergers and subsequent policy interventions after the 5-to-3 consolidation of the worldwide hard disk drive industry in 2012. It adopts a holistic view of innovation, employing four different measures: R&D, patents, the number of new models, and their unit prices. This allows us to distinguish the magnitude of the merging parties innovative efforts from the productivity of those efforts. Our firm-level approach confirms that there is important heterogeneity across the players, which we attribute to differences in the severity of remedies required by competition authorities.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: innovation,matrix completion,mergers,patents,r&d,aerospace engineering,economics and econometrics,economics, econometrics and finance (miscellaneous),industrial relations,industrial and manufacturing engineering,strategy and management,3* ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2202
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics
Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Industrial Economics
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Responsible Business Regulation Group
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Date Deposited: 02 Jun 2021 00:09
Last Modified: 06 Feb 2025 09:54
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80186
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2021.102755

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