scrutiny of information sharing by proximate businesses – if outright merger does not appear to have anticompetitive effects …

assessment of anticompetitive innovation effects in merger review. By focusing on the applied U.S. Antitrust, it turns out that …

At least since the early 1980s, the core principles of merger enforcement policy have been stable. Horizontal mergers …, however, the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice challenged one merger transaction, and almost challenged …

heterogeneous firms and constant returns to scale. We show that the price change brought about by a merger only depends on the … be seriously misleading. We also provide closed-form solutions for calibration that approximate merger effects on the … basis of simple pre-merger parameters …

pressure post-merger. We show that while optimal pricing is determined by the nature of end-users' side choices, their platform … choices are crucial for merger analysis. …

(and, in particular, lower merger costs) decrease pre-merger collusion, as punishments by price wars are weakened. Thus …

pharmaceutical mergers, cumulative abnormal returns on portfolios of rivals predict post-merger changes in the combined firm's R … define rivals, construct portfolios and use event studies in merger evaluations …

We investigate the trade-off between financial stability and competition policy by focusing on the merger of ABN AMRO … and Fortis Bank NL in the Dutch retail banking market. The financial crisis delayed the completion of the merger giving … the first to apply merger simulation methods in the context of banking using disaggregated data. …