After roughly 15 years of merger control application in the Federal Republic of Germany a reassessment of the significance of this instrument of antitrust policy seems necessary. This is particularly so in view of the reorientation of merger control policy in the United States which has been -...

Die Entsorgungswirtschaft wird mehr als viele andere Branchen von staatlichen Regulierungsmaßnahmen geprägt. Um einem drohenden Entsorgungsnotstand entgegenzuwirken, entschloß sich die Bundesregierung Anfang der neunziger Jahre zu einer Neuordnung der Abfallwirtschaft. Mit der Einführung von...

While customer damage claims against price-cartels receive much attention, it is unresolved to what extent other groups that are negatively affected may claim compensation. This paper focuses on probably the most important one, suppliers to a downstream sellers' cartel. The paper first...

This comment is submitted by the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) at Scalia Law School at George Mason University to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission regarding its hearing on Concentration and Competitiveness in the U.S. Economy as part of the Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in...

This paper presents a non-technical introduction to three economic tools that have in recent years become widespread in competition law enforcement in general and in the analysis of proposed mergers in particular: critical loss analysis, upward pricing pressure, and the vertical arithmetic. In...

In this comprehensive review of ex-post merger studies price effects of horizontal transactions are evaluated. By combining and further analyzing the results of 52 retrospective studies on 82 mergers or merger-like transactions it can be shown that the industry alone is no strong indication for...

Price is one of the major factor that determines the consumability of a product in competitive market. In an ideal competitive world both consumers and the industry enjoys a symbiotic relation. However in an ideal situation it has been believed since industries’ motivation is profit which can...

In this article we introduce the reader to the most important cases in competition law between the beginnings of 2012, until May 2013. Our focus is on either the novelties in the cases or on issues which might be interesting for an international readership due to the recent developments and...