61882 20220208112844.0 doi 10.3232/UBR.2016.V13.N3.05 sideral 100519 ART-2016-100519 eng Bernal, Pilar Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-1449-2248 If you can't beat them, join them: Analysis of mergers in european mobile telecommunications 2016 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Industry maturity usually involves concentration processes as natural reactions towards competition intensification. This is the case of the mobile telecommunications industry. Domestic mergers have increased during the last years. Although existing literature has analyzed concentration processes in other older industries, the more recent industry of mobile telecommunications has received less attention. This study aims to analyze the role of domestic mergers as a competitive mechanism in the long term. We have reviewed all domestic mergers between mobile operators in 43 European markets from 2000 to 2015. After identifying 26 domestic mergers, this study observes that they not only have immediate effects in the market power of participants, domestic mergers also influence the evolution of rivalry in the long term. We observe that domestic mergers slow down the increase of competition that has taken place from 2000 to 2015 as a consequence of factors such as the entry of new competitors and regulators' intervention. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 0.174 2016 Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) 2016 Q3 Finance 2016 Q4 Economics and Econometrics 2016 Q4 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Garrido, Elisabet Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-5071-0858 Ríos, Pablo 4012 650 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Direcc.Organiza.Empresas Área Organización de Empresas 51 (2016), 130-167 Univ. bus. rev. Universia business review 1698-5117 1889399 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/61882/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 66982 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/61882/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:61882 articulos driver 2022-02-08-11:23:10 ARTICLE