The Microsoft antitrust cases -- Microsoft's early encounters with the U.S. antitrust system : the FTC investigation and the Antitrust Division's licensing case -- Bringing the Windows 95/98 monopolization case -- Concluding the Windows 95/98 case : appeal and settlement -- Private litigation in...

An increasingly important part of contemporary merger control both in the US and the EU is unilateral effects analysis, particularly with regard to oligopolistic mergers. In practice, this requires econometric analyses of past market data and, above all, the construction of simulation models in...