I study the predictability of the EC’s merger decision procedure before and after the 2004 merger policy reform based … concerns in markets affected by a merger, I find that the predictive performance of the random forests is much better than the … concerns. Secondly, postreform, DG Comp seems to base its assessment on a more complex interaction of merger and market …

Scholars and enforcement officials debate the merits and implications of “behavioral antitrust” — the application of … rationality”) to antitrust law. Notwithstanding their many disagreements, both sides in this debate recognize that consumers — as … rationality of consumers poses for antitrust law three distinct, if related, challenges, only the first and most obvious of which …

be improved, or avoided altogether, through econometric techniques such as merger simulation. Judicial analysis of entry …This article looks first at the process courts use to resolve merger challenges and finds that in the area of product … market definition, merger analysis is reasonably strong. Market definition remains complex and subjective, however, and could …

essential to move toward a more accurate post-merger price simulation model: change in marginal costs, change in product lines …Horizontal-merger price simulations, which rely upon pre-merger data to predict post-merger prices, have been proposed … and used in antitrust policymaking. However, a dearth of closely observed large mergers in differentiated …

I study the predictability of the EC’s merger decision procedure before and after the 2004 merger policy reform based … concerns in markets affected by a merger, I find that the predictive performance of the random forests is much better than the … concerns. Secondly, post-reform, DG Comp seems to base its assessment on a more complex interaction of merger and market …

I study the predictability of the EC's merger decision procedure before and after the 2004 merger policy reform based … concerns in markets affected by a merger, I find that the predictive performance of the random forests is much better than the … concerns. Secondly, postreform, DG Comp seems to base its assessment on a more complex interaction of merger and market …