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  <dc:title>Merger Simulation and Calibration</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package mergersim version 0.2.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>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) 
    &lt;doi:10.1016/j.ijindorg.2023.102986&gt;. Calibrates demand systems including 
    standard logit, nested logit, and generalized nested logit as 
    implemented in Panhans and Wiemer (2026) &lt;doi:10.1093/joclec/nhaf037&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Imports: BB, numDeriv, rootSolve, stats</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: antitrust, knitr, rmarkdown</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Matthew T Panhans &lt;mpanhans@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Matthew T Panhans [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7874-6740&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>CC0</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-07-21</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=mergersim</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.mergersim</dc:identifier>
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