employment of merger simulation models in merger control procedures during the past almost 15 years. Merger simulation is … of state-of-the-art merger simulation models and review their previous employment in merger cases as well as the problems … and limitations currently associated with their use in merger control. In summary, merger simulation models represent an …

We review the Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office Germany) decision on the proposed merger between Springer and …-economic approach in European merger control, a particular thorough line of argumentation, backed with particularly convincing economic … evidence, is necessary to justify a prohibition of a conglomerate merger from an economic point of view. Against this …

We review the Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office Germany) decision on the proposed merger between Springer and …-economic approach in European merger control, a particular thorough line of argumen-tation, backed with particularly convincing economic … evidence, is necessary to justify a pro-hibition of a conglomerate merger from an economic point of view. Against this …

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 …

, consequently, the relevance of simple checklists in merger control can be questioned. …

In several European merger cases competition authorities have demanded that the merging firm auctions off virtual …

We estimate the deterrence effects of U.S. merger policy instruments with respect tothe composition and frequency of … future merger notifications. Data from the Annual Reports bythe U.S. DOJ and FTC allow industry based measures over the 1986 … challenge-rate to robustly deter future horizontal(both relative and absolute) merger activity; the investigation-rate to …