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 …

Advances in competition economics as well as in computational and empirical methods have offered the scope for the … 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 …

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 …

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 …

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

An increasingly important part of contemporary merger control both in the US and the EU is unilateral effects analysis … merger between the software firms Oracle and PeopleSoft in 2003/04 has been the most important instance of parallel … of sophisticated economic tools in contemporary merger control. In addition to case-specific factors, the major insights …

Based on a database of 326 merger cases scrutinized by the European Commission between 1990 and 2007, we evaluate the … economic impact of the change in European merger legislation in 2004. We ?rst propose a general framework to assess merger … assessment of the merger and the merger control decision. We then focus on four different dimensions of effectiveness: 1) legal …

An increasingly important part of contemporary merger control both in the US and the EU is unilateral effects analysis … merger between the software firms Oracle and PeopleSoft in 2003/04 has been the most important instance of parallel … sophisticated economic tools in contemporary merger control. In addition to case-specific factors, the major insights encompass the …

We propose a general framework to assess merger policy effectiveness based on standard oligopoly theory and stock …) reversion of anti-competitive rents, and 4) deterrence. We apply this framework to 368 merger cases scrutinized by the European … Commission (EC) between 1990 and 2007. To evaluate the economic impact of the change in European merger legislation, we compare …