This paper provides a comprehensive discussion of the deterrence properties of a competition policy regime. On the … deterrence: 1) sanctions and damages; 2) financial and human resources; 3) powers during the investigation; 4) quality of the law …; 5) independence and 6) separation of power. We then discuss how to measure deterrence. We review the literature that …

We show that the number of merger proposals (frequency-based deterrence) is a more appropriate indicator of underlying … changes in merger policy than the relative anti-competitiveness of merger proposals (composition-based deterrence). This has … strong implications for the empirical analysis of the deterrence effects of merger policy enforcement, and potential …