Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus; Szücs, Florian - 2010
Based on a database of 326 merger cases scrutinized by the European Commission between 1990 and 2007, we evaluate the … economic impact of the change in European merger legislation in 2004. We first propose a general framework to assess merger … assessment of the merger and the merger control decisions. We then focus on four different dimensions of effectiveness: 1) legal …