Recently there has been a notable increase in interest in antitrust law in much of the world. This chapter discusses … antitrust policy toward horizontal mergers, the area of antitrust that has seen some of the most dramatic improvements in both …, merger laws and enforcement practices, econometric methods for analyzing prospective horizontal mergers, and evidence …

We examine antitrust rules in a two county general equilibrium trade model, contrasting national and multilateral …

This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition … central features of antitrust policy. Our objective is to foster the improvement of legal regimes and also to identify topics …

. It follows that an antitrust authority ignoring existing PPOs when evaluating merger proposals (which reflects the … to the merger. We show that a PPO reduces the minimal synergy level necessary to make a merger beneficial for consumers … current EU merger control regime) invites sneaky takeovers: Acquiring firms strategically use PPOs prior to a full merger …