find interesting results linking patents to GM's bankruptcy, the Daimler-Chrysler merger, environmental regulations …

assessment of anticompetitive innovation effects in merger review. By focusing on the applied U.S. Antitrust, it turns out that …

account in merger policy. Although we can show in our study that in one third of all challenged mergers also innovation …

predicts that a merger is more likely to be profitable in an innovation intensive industry. For a high degree of firm … heterogeneity, a merger reduces innovation of both the merged entity and non-merging competitors in an industry with high R … consistent with many predictions of the theoretical model. Our main result is that after a merger, patenting and R&D of the …

The AT&T T-Mobile merger was met with great resistance from competitors, consumers, and regulators alike. Within the … of legal and economic argument against the merger. This paper examines the strength of those arguments, and argues that … arguments against the merger to better reflect the economic data which should appropriately drive this debate …