occurs either with a merger, a partial merger, an acquisition or, most commonly, a failed rival league. Often the incumbent …

This paper analyses the effects of concentration on profitability in the US banking sector from 1994-2005, using bank … relationship between concentration and profitability. Strong support is found for the Structure-Conduct-Performance hypothesis, as … and specifications, and to various measures of profitability and of concentration. Further analysis sheds light on the …

The article is focused on area of economic competition. The basic pre-requisite of economic competition is assuring of … system which ensures transparency of market and informed ness of subjects. Policy of protection of economic competition is … competition. Within the frame of EU it is a coordinated policy. In Czech Republic economic competition is modified by economic …

generate outputs. Horizontal integration is a merger/acquisition/buyout with another same organization in the market that …

The valuation of synergy is vital to the success of any merger, however, given current valuation methodologies and the … complexity of the task; it is also the most challenging element of merger and acquisition pricing. Conventional valuation methods … elements and relations. If such a delicate system is segmented due to a merger, the outcome measured in turnover and profit …

partially, but not completely, reversed by termination announcement returns, evidence that the merger proposal itself contains … examining how merger bids and terminations affect the relative values of bidders attempting diversifying and focusing takeovers …

The article tackles the key-points of the European Commission decision clearing a complex merger in which a situation … of ex-post near-monopoly was created. The article mainly deals with the counter-factual analysis where the merger would … briefly mentions the 2002/2003 debate preceding the adoption of the new EC merger regulation 139/04: the scope of the EC …

for the progress of the economic theory in the domain of competition analysis and policies. This study will give outlook …Nowadays high profile merger cases are becoming quite important and are taken as milestones of legal systems that … of the decisions made by the European Commission, as well as, the US Department of Justice in the merger case of two …

In current horizontal merger policy in the US and the EU an explicit efficiency defense is allowed. On both sides of …’ potential to harm consumers in the relevant market. Current merger policy is implicitly based on the assumption that rational … managers will only propose privately profitable mergers. In this thesis I will show that the empirical evidence on merger …