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Prüfer, Jens 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7203-9711
(2011)
Competition and mergers among nonprofits.
Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 7 (1).
pp. 69-92.
ISSN 1744-6414
Abstract
Should mergers among nonprofit organizations be assessed differently than mergers among for-profit firms? A recent debate in law and economics, boosted by apparently one-sided court decisions, has produced the result that promoting competition is socially valuable regardless of the particular objectives of producers. In this paper, I challenge the general validity of this result by showing that it may indeed depend on the particular objectives of producers whether a merger between two nonprofits is welfare-decreasing or -increasing. This implies that it is impossible to assess the net effects of a merger between two nonprofits without examining the objectives of the owners involved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | economics and econometrics,law ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2000/2002 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Economic Theory Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Industrial Economics |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Sep 2022 12:30 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2023 00:42 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/87958 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/joclec/nhq015 |
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