Introduction -- Mergers and merger policy in the U.S. : an overview -- Evaluating merger outcomes -- Guide to merger … analysis using difference-in-differences (Daniel Greenfield) -- Merger retrospectives : two studies -- Mergers and product … prices -- Merger policy and remedies -- Retrospective studies of groups of mergers -- Summary of findings and concluding …

affected firms' margins and merger activity. We find that these programs, which give amnesty to cartel conspirators that … merger review process might be a prerequisite for strengthening anti-collusion enforcement …

the period 1990-2002 to assess the effectiveness of European merger control. The basic idea is to relate announcement and … decision abnormal returns. Under a set of four maintained assumptions, merger control might be interpreted to be effective if … rents accruing due to the increased market power observed around the merger announcement are reversed by the antitrust …

reactions around the day of the merger's announcement provide information on the first question, whereas the stock market … hypotheses on the effects that remedies are supposed to achieve depending on the merger's competitive outcome. We isolate several … merging firms' bargaining power during the second phase of the merger review. …

assess merger control's effectiveness. By using data gathered from several sources and employing different evaluation … techniques, we analyze the economic effects of the European Commission's (EC) merger control decisions and distinguish between … merging and rival firms' stocks to quantify the profitability effects of mergers and merger control decisions. We back up our …