Abstract

Antitrust enforcement agencies and courts use net effect on price as a touchstone for the legality of mergers. This paper derives a simple condition for implementing that standard when industry equilibrium is static Nash in quantities (Cournot), and that condition is robust to different specifications of demand and cost.

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