We investigate the trade-off between financial stability and competition policy by focusing on the merger of ABN AMRO … and Fortis Bank NL in the Dutch retail banking market. The financial crisis delayed the completion of the merger giving … the first to apply merger simulation methods in the context of banking using disaggregated data. …

The 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines produced by the antitrust enforcement agencies introduce a nontechnical application … of mergers were introduced in the 1990s. The bargaining theory that drives much of vertical merger analysis today has … of bargaining theory into the assessment of competitive effects from vertical acquisitions. The economics of such …

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