We find that stricter merger control legislation increases abnormal announcement returns of targets in bank mergers by … 7 percentage points. Analyzing potential explanations for this result, we document an increase in the pre-merger … other banks. Other merger properties, including the size and risk profile of targets, the geographic overlap of merging …

in the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. Through a model of enforcement, we find that agencies challenge mergers they expect …

analyze the effects of less restrictive policies, including merger remedies and the tax treatment of acquisitions and initial …

Recently there has been a notable increase in interest in antitrust law in much of the world. This chapter discusses …, merger laws and enforcement practices, econometric methods for analyzing prospective horizontal mergers, and evidence …

discuss how mergers affect competing media platforms’ choice of genre. In the third part, we discuss how to take on merger … control in two-sided media markets. Motivated by some actual merger cases, we also discuss how antitrust authorities might err …