that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for 1,014 mergers affecting 12,325 antitrust markets scrutinized by the …Worldwide, the overwhelming majority of large horizontal mergers are cleared by antitrust authorities unconditionally …. The presumption seems to be that efficiencies from these mergers are sizeable. We calculate the compensating efficiencies …

that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for 1,014 mergers affecting 12,325 antitrust markets scrutinized by the …Worldwide, the overwhelming majority of large horizontal mergers are cleared by antitrust authorities unconditionally …. The presumption seems to be that efficiencies from these mergers are sizeable. We calculate the compensating efficiencies …

use a novel database that identifies over 20,000 product/geographic antitrust markets affected by over2,000 mergers … scrutinized by the European Commission between 1995 and 2014. We show that concentration, as measured by the market-specific post-merger … industries. In a regression analysis that exploits this within-industry variation, we show that barriers to entry are …

use a novel database that identifies over 20,000 product/geographic antitrust markets affected by over 2,000 mergers … scrutinized by the European Commission between 1995 and 2014. We show that concentration, as measured by the market-specific post-merger … industries. In a regression analysis that exploits this within-industry variation, we show that barriers to entry are …

This paper estimates the impact of entries and mergers on the price of mobile voice services in a panel database of 27 … different structural changes between countries to separate the respective effects. Our results show that the effect of entry … lead to misleading conclusions. We find no robust evidence that entry has a price-decreasing effect on markets with …

This paper estimates the impact of entries and mergers on the price of mobile voice services in a panel database of 27 … different structural changes between countries to separate the respective effects. Our results show that the effect of entry … lead to misleading conclusions. We find no robust evidence that entry has a price-decreasing effect on markets with …