This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first … investigated mergers and whether a more effective merger control regime can be achieved within the current legal framework. … theories of harm in major merger cases in the past few years. We then analyse the characteristics of almost 300 acquisitions …

This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first … investigated mergers and whether a more effective merger control regime can be achieved within the current legal framework … theories of harm in major merger cases in the past few years. We then analyse the characteristics of almost 300 acquisitions …

This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first … investigated mergers and whether a more effective merger control regime can be achieved within the current legal framework … theories of harm in major merger cases in the past few years. We then analyse the characteristics of almost 300 acquisitions …

Commission's January 18, 2022, Request for Information on Merger Enforcement. Despite information and uncertainty problems with … exercise involved in potential/nascent competition cases should differ from a standard merger review. Third, analysis of …

Using a sample of 167 mergers during the period 1990-2002 involving 544 firms either as merging firms or competitors …, we contrast a measure of the merger's profitability based on event studies with one based on accounting data. We find … case of anticompetitive mergers. …

effects. Standard anti-trust analysis of mergers, in pharmaceuticals as in other industries, focuses on the proposed merger’s …Mergers in the pharmaceutical sector warrant special scrutiny not only because of concerns over affordability of … medicines, but also because the institutional details of pharmaceutical markets complicate the economic analysis of merger …