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 …

is an important enhancement of substantive merger appraisal, it should not be considered sufficient in itself for the … finding of a significant impediment to effective competition in terms of Article 2 of the EU Merger Regulation (EUMR). Rather … of any theory of harm …

post-merger R&D efforts (including lower expenditure). SIEIC is distinct from the mainstream unilateral effects theory of … applied in merger cases? This paper is divided into three sections. In Section I, the SIEIC theory of harm is described and … recently, the European Commission (“Commission”) used its powers under the EU Merger Regulation (“EUMR”) to impose remedies in …

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

The paper studies the effects of the Pfizer and Pharmacia (2003) merger on competition in the Swiss pharmaceutical … market and compares the assessment of the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) with the post-merger market developments. We … find that the merger has had a miniscule impact on the Swiss pharmaceutical market. This has primarily to do with the fact …

I study the predictability of the EC’s merger decision procedure before and after the 2004 merger policy reform based … concerns in markets affected by a merger, I find that the predictive performance of the random forests is much better than the … concerns. Secondly, postreform, DG Comp seems to base its assessment on a more complex interaction of merger and market …

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

Mergers and acquisitions shape industry competition. Effective merger remedies are important for market efficiency and …-phase, bifurcated merger control system. This system integrates ex-ante processes with more systematic and comprehensive ex … merger control in dynamic markets. …