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 …

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 …

Advanced economic instruments like simulation models are enjoying an increased popularity in practical antitrust. There … appropriate simulation model for any given merger proposal. Due to the inevitable necessity to reduce real-world complexity and … multi-parameter character of merger cases, the comparative fit of proposed merger simulation models with mutually …

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

antitrust authorities have implemented a new method, called ‘merger simulation’ or the use of an oligopoly model with a demand …The paper’s purpose is to investigate and to criticize the quantitative method used by antitrust authorities to analyze … mergers unilateral effects. Until the nineties the method used by antitrust authorities was discretionary, based on a …