The purpose of this report is to contribute to the analysis of two questions. Should a merger control system take into … theoretical and empirical studies of mergers and merger control. Next, we review the current legal practice in seven OECD … jurisdictions. Finally, we propose a merger control system, emphasising the central role of informational limitations. Based on our …

Although there is anecdotal evidence that merger control may constitute a barrier to the integration of European retail … dataset on the transparency on merger control in the EU banking sector, we estimate the probability that a bank is taken over … as a function of its characteristics, country characteristics and the transparency of merger control in the banking …

, products or other valuable resources of the target firm. Given this heterogeneity of takeover motivations and the skewness of … the distribution of the deal value we show whether and how the importance of different takeover motivations changes along …