consultants) anticipate the critical questions and potential paths that should be addressed regarding antitrust merger risk. This … affected merger review, investments, decision making, and counsel. The surveys also offer antitrust agencies an opportunity to …Estimating antitrust risk is fundamental to identifying, proposing, and pricing deals. A more informed understanding of …

This Essay provides an overview of U.S. antitrust merger practice in addressing efficiencies both in terms of actual … debates regarding shifts in antitrust merger enforcement are without empirical support. This Response addresses each of these … instance, the article does not discuss the empirical work addressing when the agencies use efficiencies, the role antitrust …

standards in the horizontal merger guidelines. Combined, the breakdown of the antitrust regulatory sandbox threatens innovation … investment and innovation outcomes. The antitrust regulatory sandbox is generally a success, even if at the margins there are …, creates additional costs to the merger system, and chills the types of mergers that should be made. To the extent that the …

Merger remedies are an area of increasing complexity around the world. They are also an area of increased focus by … view of how high tech markets work in their merger remedies and, by implication, dominance cases — especially considering …

The appropriate role of merger efficiencies remains unresolved in US antitrust law and policy. The Patient Protection … challenges for antitrust. Most hospital merger cases focus on cost based efficiencies, as does most of the academic empirical … quality analysis both in the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines and in antitrust case law. In doing so, the essay identifies …

the problem of a small number of published merger decisions through a unique practitioner survey of antitrust lawyers … the development of Chinese antitrust. These include: the welfare standard used in merger analysis, what industrial policy …This paper explores the factors that drive merger outcomes under China's Anti-Monopoly Law (AML). The paper overcomes …

methods based on survey data of antitrust practitioners on merger issues to better understand institutional choice and the …This article makes two primary contributions to the antitrust literature. First, it identifies the dynamic … interrelationship across antitrust institutions. Second, it provides new empirical evidence from practitioner surveys to explore how the …