Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- I. Internationale Megafusionen auf globalisierten Märkten -- II. Wettbewerb und … Wettbewerbspolitik -- III. Vorteile und Gefahren von Fusionen auf globalen Märkten -- IV. Internationale Fusionen und wirksame … Wettbewerbspolitik -- Literatur -- Register -- Begriffserklärungen -- Backmatter …

A proposal for moving from price-centric to innovation-centric competition policy, reviewing theory and evidence on … economic incentives for innovation. Competition policy and antitrust enforcement have traditionally focused on prices rather … than innovation. Economic theory shows the ways that price competition benefits consumers; and courts, antitrust agencies …

This paper looks at whether the standard unilateral effects model can be applied to non-price competition parameters … such as innovation. This question arises because competition authorities are intervening in horizontal mergers that are … found to give rise to a “significant impediment to effective innovation competition” (“SIEIC”) as a result of a reduction in …

The complexity of co-operation in cross-border competition law enforcement increased significantly between 1990 and … 2011, underlining the urgency to improve techniques and tools of competition authority co-operation. As international trade … has increased, the number of competition law enforcement activities related to cross-border mergers and cartels has risen …

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 … products using a random-coefficients logit model. On the supply side we assume Bertrand Nash competition in a multiproduct …