Nowadays, merger control predominantly relies upon a strict analysis of the effects from merger and acquisitions on … effective competition. However, there is scope for so-called public interest considerations in several European merger control …-competition-oriented interventions into merger control. For instance, they did so in the context of the prohibition of the Siemens-Alstommerger and the …

Market concentration often leads to unnecessarily high prices and reduced innovation. European merger control …, merger control needs to be enforced even more stringently, especially in digital markets. Attempts to weaken merger control …

rules. In response, the EU has changed its trade policy under the motto ‘Open Strategic Autonomy’ towards a more assertive … engenders several new or amended trade policy instruments, but meets with reservations as the renewed politicisation of EU trade … new policy instruments will enlarge its leeway in trade policy. The future of the EU's multilateral, rule‐ instead of …

This paper deals with the application of the SIEC test in German merger control using the decision by the … in the context of German merger control. Even though they cannot be transferred to other cases directly they could prove … significant for the further development of German merger control under the SIEC test. Only further case-practice will, however …

A couple of years ago, a new phenomenon emerged in the EU Merger Control sphere. This phenomenon is called – “Killer … impossible to capture these acquisitions with the EU Merger Control rules since it was not possible with the threshold … preferred approach of capturing killer acquisitions at the EU level in a critical way. Because this work is also trying to …

We estimate the macroeconomic effects of import tariffs and trade policy uncertainty in the United States, combining …. Tariff shocks are more important than trade policy uncertainty shocks. Tariff shocks depress trade, investment, and output …

, with sectors like information and communication technology (ICT) capturing a growing share of EU GDP. This Policy Brief … examines the impact of these economic shifts on Europe's trade profile and the policies that the EU can pursue to support this …

industries and countries. This article analyses the potential implications of this trend for merger control. We argue that …

We study the evolution of the EC’s merger decision procedure over the first 25 years of European competition policy …