duopolistic and triopolistic markets under product differentiation (quantity and price competition). In a two-stage game, firms … outsiders. With product differentiation, under quantity competition, and under price competition with outsiders to the merger … price competition with a merger to monopoly, the merger induces efficiency gains except when spillovers are very low. With …

economic issues of competition on dominant platforms, using Amazon as a case study. The paper examines the role of dominant … recommendations to adapt competition law to the challenges of the digital economy …

This paper develops a model that formalizes several connections between mergers, collusion and competition policy. In …) and the competition authority can only deter collusion by restricting mergers. Finally, we highlight that mergers could be … more harmful (less beneficial) than expected if the impact that mergers have on the competition regime is properly …