the period 1990-2002 to assess the effectiveness of European merger control. The basic idea is to relate announcement and … decision abnormal returns. Under a set of four maintained assumptions, merger control might be interpreted to be effective if … rents accruing due to the increased market power observed around the merger announcement are reversed by the antitrust …

larger price increases than mergerrelated exits. Within the merger category, our analysis reveals significant price increases … on all affected routes immediately after the exit events. In the medium and long-run, however, realized merger …

We investigate the competitive effects of the merger between Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines (2009) in the … increases of about 11 percent on overlapping routes and about 10 percent on routes which experienced a merger-induced switch of … the operating carrier. Over a longer period, however, our analysis reveals that both merger efficiencies and post-merger …

follows. We find weak and shortlived return spillovers, in particular from the USA to Japan. Volatility spillovers are more …

Verkaufsanstrengungen auf alle Produkte verteilen („Kollusion“) oder ob sie die Anzahl ihrer Produkte reduzieren („Fusion“). Wir zeigen, daß …, in denen Kooperation in Form von „Kollusion“ oder „Fusion“ für die kooperierenden Unternehmen profitabel ist. …