mergersim: Merger Simulation and Calibration

Analyze mergers between firms. Models of competition include differentiated Bertrand price-setting, Nash bargaining, and second score auctions, as implemented in Panhans and Taragin (2023) <doi:10.1016/j.ijindorg.2023.102986>. Calibrates demand systems including standard logit, nested logit, and generalized nested logit as implemented in Panhans and Wiemer (2026) <doi:10.1093/joclec/nhaf037>.

Version:	0.1.0
Imports:	BB, numDeriv, rootSolve, stats
Suggests:	antitrust, knitr, rmarkdown
Published:	2026-07-02
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.mergersim (may not be active yet)
Author:	Matthew T Panhans [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Matthew T Panhans <mpanhans at gmail.com>
License:	CC0
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	mergersim results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	mergersim.html , mergersim.pdf
Vignettes:	calibrating-gnl-demand (source, R code) horizontal-merger-simulations (source, R code) vertical-merger-simulations (source, R code)

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Package source:	mergersim_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: mergersim_0.1.0.zip, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): mergersim_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): mergersim_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): mergersim_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): mergersim_0.1.0.tgz

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