The Intercontinental Exchange's current attempted acquisition of NYSE-Euronext is the third takeover proposal in as …

There is a growing concern that U.S. merger control may have been too lenient, but empirical evidence remains limited … reviewing the use and challenges of event studies in merger analysis, I use a novel application of Hoberg-Phillips (2010, 2016 ….S. mergers between 1997 and 2017. I document that following a merger announcement, the most likely competitors experience on …

We consider merger remedies of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division and the U.S. Federal Trade …

, we address three research questions: (i) Is the current development of analyzing industry with its recent merger activity … merger control in this industry, as well as a more active abuse control against already vertically-integrated media companies. …

net it out. The prima facie case should not, however, extend to netting the two out, but rather to showing that the merger …

to the merger. We show that a PPO reduces the minimal synergy level necessary to make a merger beneficial for consumers …. It follows that an antitrust authority ignoring existing PPOs when evaluating merger proposals (which reflects the … current EU merger control regime) invites sneaky takeovers: Acquiring firms strategically use PPOs prior to a full merger …