Book contents
- Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law
- Global Competition Law and Economics Policy
- Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Authors
- 1 Global Food Value Chains
- 2 Rents, Power and Governance in Global Value Chains
- 3 The Financialization of Land and Agriculture
- 4 Agriculture, End to End
- 5 New Forms of Financing the Agricultural Sector in Brazil
- 6 Economic Concentration and the Food Value Chain
- 7 The State of American Competition Law with Respect to the Food Chain
- 8 The Brazilian Food Value Chain and Competition Policy
- 9 Competition Concerns in Fertilizer Import-Dependent Countries like India and China
- 10 Russian Competition Policy Over Value Chains in Agricultural and Food Sectors
- 11 The Pioneer/Pannar Merger, the Maize Seed Value Chain and Globalisation
- 12 Power in the Food Value Chain
- 13 Efficiency and Fairness
- 14 China’s Legal Regulation of the Abuse of Market Power by Large Retailers
- 15 Superior Bargaining Power in Russian Contract and Competition Law
- 16 Regulating Unfair Trading Practices in the EU Food Supply Chain
- 17 Food Chain Certification and the Social Pluralism of Competition Law
- 18 Hunger Games
- 19 Agribiotech Patents in the Food Supply Chain
- 20 Mergers and Product Innovation
- 21 The Global Grain Trade
- Index
20 - Mergers and Product Innovation
Seeds and GM Crops
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 May 2022
- Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law
- Global Competition Law and Economics Policy
- Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Authors
- 1 Global Food Value Chains
- 2 Rents, Power and Governance in Global Value Chains
- 3 The Financialization of Land and Agriculture
- 4 Agriculture, End to End
- 5 New Forms of Financing the Agricultural Sector in Brazil
- 6 Economic Concentration and the Food Value Chain
- 7 The State of American Competition Law with Respect to the Food Chain
- 8 The Brazilian Food Value Chain and Competition Policy
- 9 Competition Concerns in Fertilizer Import-Dependent Countries like India and China
- 10 Russian Competition Policy Over Value Chains in Agricultural and Food Sectors
- 11 The Pioneer/Pannar Merger, the Maize Seed Value Chain and Globalisation
- 12 Power in the Food Value Chain
- 13 Efficiency and Fairness
- 14 China’s Legal Regulation of the Abuse of Market Power by Large Retailers
- 15 Superior Bargaining Power in Russian Contract and Competition Law
- 16 Regulating Unfair Trading Practices in the EU Food Supply Chain
- 17 Food Chain Certification and the Social Pluralism of Competition Law
- 18 Hunger Games
- 19 Agribiotech Patents in the Food Supply Chain
- 20 Mergers and Product Innovation
- 21 The Global Grain Trade
- Index
Summary
In Chapter 20, Pierre Régibeau and Katharine Rockett examine the additional issues raised by innovation in merger review. They outline the economic challenges generated by mergers in the presence of innovation and propose a new typology to assess static effects, dynamic effects, and efficiency. Régibeau and Rockett hypothesise that remedying the static effects of merger largely mitigates the negative effects on innovation, since they flow through the same channels. If these cannot be remedied, or if foreclosure in innovation markets is a concern, then analysing the offsetting positive effects on innovation becomes indispensable to a fair review. Here, the burden of proof should be on the merging parties, since the size of these “additional” effects will depend on features of the R&D process that are better known to the merging parties than to the competition authority. These principles lead Régibeau and Rockett to propose a policy algorithm, which distinguishes between first and second order effects, and helps to compare the innovation dimension of mergers to the pricing/output dimension. They empirically implement this algorithm in sample mergers drawn from the genetically modified crops and seed industries, leading them to conclusions for the merger policy of emergent economies, such as BRICS.
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- Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law , pp. 504 - 589Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022