mergersim

This repository contains a collection of functions that can be used to conduct model calibration and merger simulation, and to replicate the results from Panhans and Taragin 2023 and Panhans and Wiemer 2025.

Installation

You can install the development version of mergersim from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("mpanhans/mergersim")

You can install the released version of mergersim from CRAN with:

install.packages("mergersim")

Example

See the package vignettes for examples:

vignette("horizontal-merger-simulations", package = "mergersim")

Disclaimer

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