merger laws and acquires economic tools for a practical examination for merger regulation authorities. The gain is to … demonstrate an application of theoretical merger models on real existing mergers of dairy- and sugar companies and find out how to … improve merger regulation …

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 …

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 …

Deutschland so auf dem Weltmarkt der Gasindustrie auch mit einem Global Player vertreten sein würde. …

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 …

The paper studies the effects of the Pfizer and Pharmacia (2003) merger on competition in the Swiss pharmaceutical … market and compares the assessment of the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) with the post-merger market developments. We … find that the merger has had a miniscule impact on the Swiss pharmaceutical market. This has primarily to do with the fact …