rivals reduce their employment, sales and investment, while their profits increase around the time of a merger. …

We evaluate the impact of competition on investments in Europe’s mobile communications market during the 2011 … economic theory suggests these could be partly explained by the dynamic effects of competition on the ability and incentives to … players can result in diseconomies of scale and a less efficient use of resources. We also find evidence that investment …

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 …

competition. The European Commission, in trying to improve the wholesale roaming market, caused the introduction of a system of … non-discriminatory prices that were not subject to competition but instead to low levels of price transparency and with … partners, demonstrating little evidence of competition. Analyses of the wholesale markets by national regulators revealed …

order the breaking up of large firms if this is deemed necessary to remedy adverse effects on competition even if they were … the Commission's jurisdiction under the European Merger Regulation and contravene the European competition law order as …

subsidies complied with EU state aid rules, both in terms of effectiveness and competition. …

We investigate the trade-off between financial stability and competition policy by focusing on the merger of ABN AMRO … products using a random-coefficients logit model. On the supply side we assume Bertrand Nash competition in a multiproduct …