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Merger Policy and Tax Competition
In many situations governments have sector-specific tax and regulation policies at their disposal to influence the market outcome after a national or an international merger has taken place. In this paper we study the implications for merger policy when countries non-cooperatively deploy
production-based taxes. We find that whether national or international mergers are more likely to be enacted in the presence of nationally optimal tax policies depends crucially on the ownership structure of firms. When all
firms are owned domestically in the pre-merger situation, non-cooperative tax policies are more efficient in the national merger case and smaller synergy effects are needed for this type of merger to be proposed and cleared. These results are reversed when there is a high degree of foreign
firm ownership prior to the merger
Summation formulas for GJMS-operators and Q-curvatures on the M\"obius sphere
For the M\"obius spheres , we give alternative elementary proofs of
the recursive formulas for GJMS-operators and -curvatures due to the first
author [Geom. Funct. Anal. 23, (2013), 1278-1370; arXiv:1108.0273]. These
proofs make essential use of the theory of hypergeometric series.Comment: 21 pages; final version; updated presentation in view of more recent
work of the first author and of Fefferman and Graha
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