The literature identifies a significant drop in merger control enforcement activity on both sides of the Atlantic … economics suggest that a lack of 'fit' between the 'new' economic approach to merger control and the 'old' institutional … implicitly raising the standard of proof, leading to unattainable standards, virtually eroding merger control enforcement power …

der Wettbewerbspolitik an. Damit zeigt der Beitrag, dass dynamische Wettbewerbstheorien sehr wohl zu konkreten … Regulierung systemischer Marktmacht in digitalen Ökosystemen, anlassunabhängige Wettbewerbspolitik und sanktionsbewehrte … Sektoruntersuchungen, sowie die Fusionskontrolle nicht-horizontaler Zusammenschlüsse. …

ein ministererlaubtes Kartell häufig weniger starke negative Wettbewerbswirkungen hätte, als eine irreversible Fusion. Aus … negative effects on competition than an irreversible merger. We conclude that from an economic point of view a replacement of …

-called more economic approach in the 2000s). This contribution reviews the state of the art in antitrust-oriented modern … industrial economics and, in particular, critically discusses open questions and possible limits of basing antitrust on modern …

This paper provides a comparative analysis of methods for the empirical ex post evaluation of merger control decisions … about the effects of systematic impact evaluations of merger decisions. …

We examine antitrust rules in a two county general equilibrium trade model, contrasting national and multilateral …

's decision process. We find that the probability of a phase 2 investigation and of a prohibition of the merger increases with the … parties' market shares. The probability increases also when the Commission finds high entry barriers or that post-merger …

employment of merger simulation models in merger control procedures during the past almost 15 years. Merger simulation is …, nevertheless, still a very young and innovative instrument of antitrust and, therefore, its 'technical' potential is far from being … comprehensively exploited and teething problems in its practical use in the antitrust environment prevail. We provide a classification …

. This development is documented by various research papers, high-level exchanges between antitrust experts as well as an …

is that efficiency gains, and their pass-on to consumers, may vary substantially from merger to merger. For this reason … it seems appropriate to reconsider current practice in European merger control, which does not allow the merging parties …