Question 1
Which of the following statements is FALSE?
◦ Mergers may increase total profit.
◦ Mergers may enable faster growth than internal expansion.
◦ Mergers may increase market power.
◦ Mergers do not require the agreement of both firms.
Question 2
A merger of two price-making firms producing identical products will
◦ make the new firm's demand curve more elastic than the unmerged firms'.
◦ increase the level of competition in the market.
◦ lower the 5-firm concentration ratio.
◦ make the new firm's demand curve less elastic than the unmerged firms'.