WORKING PAPERS IN ECONOMICS & ECONOMETRICS PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INCENTIVES FOR MERGERS IN THE FACE OF FOREIGN ENTRY Ryan Fang and Martin Richardson School of Economics ANU College of Business and Economics The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia Working Paper No: 494 ISBN: 0 86831 494 3 July 2008 Corresponding author. Email: martin.richardson@anu.edu.au. Ph: +61 2 6125 3582.