merge nor positive international welfare effects from a merger if there are no positive synergy effects. Furthermore, it …

The paper will attempt to describe and critically analyse efficiencies' regulation in horizontal merger control at both …

We describe a simple initial indicator of whether a proposed merger between rivals in a differentiated product industry … from the merger, based on the price/cost margins of the merging firms' products and the extent of direct substitution …

coordinated and unilateral competitive effects of merger. The central issue considered is when and how market shares, and market … concentration statistics derived from them, form an appropriate basis for presuming harm to competition from merger. This revision …

conduct merger simulations and why there are important antitrust issues related to integrating merging parties’ pricing … effects in a merger context.- Remedies. Why data compatibility and collusion risk are important considerations when “divesting …

vertical mergers. Using public data from the Comcast-Time Warner-Adelphia Merger Order of the Federal Communications Commission …

that in absence of any penalty on cartel, a firm always prefers a cartel to merger, when the latter does not involve any … concentration among the competitive fringe lowers the profitability of merger as compared to cartel. We then discuss the impact of … antitrust regulation against cartel in the absence and presence of merger regulations. We find that in our model, regulation …

issues. We take the merger paradox from the standard oligopoly literature as a starting point and show that in the absence of … any cost-synergies of merger activities, firms do have an incentive to divest further instead of joining mergers. We then … endogenously and simultaneously requires both cost synergies and cost dissynergies. Endogenous merger size is then a function of …

and cost. Consistent with this theory, we show that deals in more competitive environments and deals with fewer external …