In this paper, we analyse the scope for conflict between national merger control agencies which assert jurisdictions … simultaneously. We consider a positive model of merger control in which market definition and the analysis of dominance are both … explicitly specified. We find that conflict in international merger control is less likely to occur when economic integration is …

antitrust authorities have implemented a new method, called ‘merger simulation’ or the use of an oligopoly model with a demand … system that predict the post merger prices and outputs. The problems with this new method are that two: these inherent … structural change as a consequence of the merger; and the relationship that this new method made with the variables structure and …