This paper analyses the merger control instruments available to overcome a crisis of a company and highlights their … role in the 2008/09 global financial market crisis. It concludes that the German merger control regime is well equipped to …

merger control activity across all the sectors, but banking and manufacturing, tend to be most active in terms of merger and … merger control and how the competition authorities respond to crisis by showing flexibility in merger control. The present … from both sides of the Atlantic. The article concludes by contemplating how merger control can be a constructive instrument …

Merger control during the financial crisis of 2007/2008 is one of the most challenging topics for EU Competition law …. The global crisis tested the EU merger control framework in both procedural and substantial aspects. On the one hand, the … existing competition law jurisdiction, and secondly, to cope with the crisis for the Single Market. While discussing the merger …

We analyze a large merger in the Dutch banking market during the financial crisis using disaggregated data. Based on a … merger simulation model, we evaluate merger-induced changes in the interest rates for savings accounts. We find that the …

We analyze a large merger in the Dutch banking market during the financial crisis using disaggregated data. Based on a … merger simulation model, we evaluate merger-induced changes in the interest rates for savings accounts. We find that the …