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Jens Prüfer, COMPETITION AND MERGERS AMONG NONPROFITS, Journal of Competition Law & Economics, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2011, Pages 69–92, https://doi.org/10.1093/joclec/nhq015
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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.