Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon … relationship is reasonably non-linear; (2) higher market-wide competition results in an increase in patenting, and the relationship …

anticompetitive effects of mergers, is insufficient to capture innovation competition in its full extent. As a consequence, the aim of … assessment of anticompetitive innovation effects in merger review. By focusing on the applied U.S. Antitrust, it turns out that … none of the existing approaches seems to be appropriate to fully account for innovation competition. However, the …

China's merger enforcement agency approved the Google/Motorola merger with conditions. This pattern of approval is not … protect domestic industry. In investigating the Chinese merger agency's decision and the basis for its decision making, this …, although the decision makers are less experienced, their decisions are based on Chinese competition law and market realities …

This paper looks at whether the standard unilateral effects model can be applied to non-price competition parameters … such as innovation. This question arises because competition authorities are intervening in horizontal mergers that are … found to give rise to a “significant impediment to effective innovation competition” (“SIEIC”) as a result of a reduction in …

anticompetitive effects of mergers, is insufficient to capture innovation competition in its full extent. As a consequence, the aim of … assessment of anticompetitive innovation effects in merger review. By focusing on the applied U.S. Antitrust, it turns out that … none of the existing approaches seems to be appropriate to fully account for innovation competition. However, the …

's failure to meet the Court's newly-found higher threshold demonstrating that the merger would lead to 'significant impediment … to effective competition' (SIEC), and that H3G UK was an 'important competitive force' were central to the decision … from competition law and economics & business strategy, tries to address this gap, and in the process respectfully …

have achieved the right result for the right reason. In a simple model reflecting the weak competition between the drugs …