No 113 They Played the Merger Game: A Retrospective Analysis in the UK Videogames Market Luca Aguzzoni, Elena Argentesi, Paolo Buccirossi, Lorenzo Ciari, Tomaso Duso, Massimo Tognoni, Cristiana Vitale October 2013 IMPRINT DICE DISCUSSION PAPER Published by düsseldorf university press (dup) on behalf of Heinrich‐Heine‐Universität Düsseldorf, Faculty of Economics, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany www.dice.hhu.de Editor: Prof. Dr. Hans‐Theo Normann Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) Phone: +49(0) 211‐81‐15125, e‐mail:
[email protected] DICE DISCUSSION PAPER All rights reserved. Düsseldorf, Germany, 2013 ISSN 2190‐9938 (online) – ISBN 978‐3‐86304‐112‐0 The working papers published in the Series constitute work in progress circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comments. Views expressed represent exclusively the authors’ own opinions and do not necessarily reflect those of the editor. They Played the Merger Game: A Retrospective Analysis in the UK Videogames Market Luca Aguzzoni Lear Elena Argentesi University of Bologna Paolo Buccirossi Lear Lorenzo Ciari European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Tomaso Duso Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) and Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) Massimo Tognoni UK Competition Commission Cristiana Vitale OECD October 2013 Corresponding author: Elena Argentesi, Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Piazza Scaravilli 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy, Tel: + 39 051 2098661, Fax: +39 051 2098040, E-Mail:
[email protected]. This paper is partially based on a research project we undertook for the UK Competition Commission (CC). We thank the CC’s staff for their support during the course of this study.