and the confidential nature of merger negotiations allows us to precisely measure the wealth effects of M&As in a laissez …

UK Merger control is an example of regulation which has shifted from a public interest regime to an economics based … system of competition assessment. This paper asks whether the merger of Lloyds TSB and HBOS in 2008, on public interest … grounds, marked the failure of an enduring economics based system of merger regulation. It argues that far from marking a …

companies when a decision is made by UK regulators to refer a merger or acquisition for inquiry and when the decision is … outcome of the merger or acquisition. …

This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first … theories of harm in major merger cases in the past few years. We then analyse the characteristics of almost 300 acquisitions … important merger cases, Facebook/Instagram and Google/Waze, providing a systematic assessment of the theories of harm considered …

This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first … theories of harm in major merger cases in the past few years. We then analyse the characteristics of almost 300 acquisitions … important merger cases, Facebook/Instagram and Google/Waze, providing a systematic assessment of the theories of harm considered …