This paper studies the use of merger review as a shield to obstacle hostile tender offers of a company. Commenting on …

following a merger. No merger should be unconditionally cleared if it involves a large amount of users' data. The chapter …

quantify the domestic and cross-border effects of mergers, and to draw conclusions for the coordination of national merger … industries a merger approval policy based on domestic consumer surplus is too restrictive from the viewpoint of the neighboring … country. We also show that adopting a supra-national policy that approves a merger if and only if it increases the sum of …

set of industries. We exploit expert market definitions from the European Commission's merger decisions to identify … particularly pronounced in markets with few players, high initial markups and concentration. We also provide evidence that merger … rivals reduce their employment, sales and investment, while their profits increase around the time of a merger. …

's takeover strategy and the decision problem of the antitrust authority. We derive implications for a merger control approach to … acquirer firm to learn the merger synergies with the target firm in advance. The realization of a synergy is uncertain ex ante …, so that a direct merger exhibits a downside risk not only for the merging candidates but also for consumers. We show that …

to the merger. We show that a PPO reduces the minimal synergy level necessary to make a merger beneficial for consumers …. It follows that an antitrust authority ignoring existing PPOs when evaluating merger proposals (which reflects the … current EU merger control regime) invites sneaky takeovers: Acquiring firms strategically use PPOs prior to a full merger …

data from the European Commission’s market assessments in merger decisions with production data, we use recent … the performance of almost 600 rival firms in close to 200 merger cases before and after the change in market structure … increase their markups in the years after a merger. The effects are concentrated in markets with few competitors, among firms …

-border deals was market players’ response. Measuring of post-merger performance alterations is a central question of M&A literature …