effects. -- merger simulation ; merger control ; antitrust ; oligopoly theory ; auction models ; mergers & acquisitions … employment of merger simulation models in merger control procedures during the past almost 15 years. Merger simulation is …, nevertheless, still a very young and innovative instrument of antitrust and, therefore, its ‘technical’ potential is far from being …

Digital platforms are at the heart of online economic activity, connecting multi-sided markets of producers and … market competition and regulation in addressing these concerns. Traditional (ex-post) antitrust intervention will be less … effective in markets driven by network effects unless it is combined with a proper (ex-ante) regulatory framework. Antitrust …

-called more economic approach in the 2000s). This contribution reviews the state of the art in antitrust-oriented modern … industrial economics and, in particular, critically discusses open questions and possible limits of basing antitrust on modern … economics should be used to design better competition rules. -- competition policy ; antitrust ; modern industrial economics …

earlier versions of this paper. -- Merger control ; European competition policy ; antitrust ; enforcement problems …The literature identifies a significant drop in merger control enforcement activity on both sides of the Atlantic … economics suggest that a lack of 'fit' between the 'new' economic approach to merger control and the 'old' institutional …

; merger control ; competition policy ; antitrust decisions ; comparative analysis …This paper provides a comparative analysis of methods for the empirical ex post evaluation of merger control decisions … about the effects of systematic impact evaluations of merger decisions. -- empirical methods of industrial organization …

Digital platforms facilitate interactions between consumers and merchants that allow collection of profiling … failures both on-platform, among merchants, and off-platform, among competing platforms. This paper develops two product …-differentiation models to study private and social incentives to share information within and between platforms. We show that there is scope …

current world economic order, i.e. the lack of supranational governance of private international restrictions to market … the selection and appointment of appropriate lead jurisdictions for concrete cross-border antitrust cases, while the … substantive treatment remains within the competence of the existing national and regional antitrust regimes. -- international …

merger and acquisition strategies have been very important factors in their growth. Market dominance by big platforms has led … to competition concerns that are difficult to assess with current merger policy tools. In this paper, we examine the … discuss the main merger and acquisition theories of harm that can restrict market competition and reduce consumer welfare. To …

model, we simulate the consequences of counter-factual national merger regulation. The US beer price index would have been 4 …