This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first … investigated mergers and whether a more effective merger control regime can be achieved within the current legal framework. …

these multi-sided companies along with each company's most important market segments. We then track their mergers and …

preferences that guide such antitrust prosecutions remain understudied. We empirically examine the intertemporal shifts in U ….S. antitrust cartel prosecutions during the period 1969-2013. This period has seen substantive policy innovations with increasing …

antitrust effectiveness and the need for comparative institutional analyses of antitrust that extend beyond matters of … precluding private antitrust enforcement as one salient choice in antitrust design depends on whether antitrust enforcement is … antitrust lawsuits or incentivizes firms to engage in frivolous litigation. Corruption expectedly reduces the effectiveness of …

antitrust lawsuit that charged Bell with having foreclosed the market for telecommunications equipment. The decree forced Bell …

. The antitrust agency’s incentives to produce evidence on the efficiency of a merger proposal depend critically on its …

merger’s effects, controlling for selection on observables when defining our control group through a matching procedure. We …