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Volume 17, Issue 6
1 June 1991
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Review Article| June 01 1991

Regulating the Market for Corporate Control: Some UK Evidence Available to Purchase

William P. Forbes
William P. Forbes
Institute of European Finance, University College of North Wales, Gwynedd, UK, LL57 2DG
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7743
Print ISSN: 0307-4358
© MCB UP Limited
1991
Managerial Finance (1991) 17 (6): 24–34.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013688

This paper presents an analysis of UK merger policy based upon the allocative effects of Monopoly and Mergers Commission (MMC) decisions. For some time now evidence has been available concerning the ineffectiveness of MMC decisions in reducing product market concentration (see Simpson and Shaw 1986, 1989). So, if the reduction of market concentration is not a systematic result of decisions of the MMC, it is interesting to ask what have been the discernible effects of the MMC's activities and what revised objectives might be formulated for that body?

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