assess merger control's effectiveness. By using data gathered from several sources and employing different evaluation … techniques, we analyze the economic effects of the European Commission's (EC) merger control decisions and distinguish between … merging and rival firms' stocks to quantify the profitability effects of mergers and merger control decisions. We back up our …

the period 1990-2002 to assess the effectiveness of European merger control. The basic idea is to relate announcement and … decision abnormal returns. Under a set of four maintained assumptions, merger control might be interpreted to be effective if … rents accruing due to the increased market power observed around the merger announcement are reversed by the antitrust …

We show that the number of merger proposals (frequency-based deterrence) is a more appropriate indicator of underlying … changes in merger policy than the relative anti-competitiveness of merger proposals (composition-based deterrence). This has … strong implications for the empirical analysis of the deterrence effects of merger policy enforcement, and potential …

We study the evolution of the EC’s merger decision procedure over the first 25 years of European competition policy …. Using a novel dataset constructed at the level of the relevant markets and containing all merger cases over the 1990 … importance of barriers to entry and the risk of foreclosure has increased in the EC’s merger assessment following the 2004 merger …

concentrations during the period 1990-2002 to assess the effectiveness of European merger control. We analyze the economic effects of … the European Commission's merger control decisions and distinguish between prohibitions, clearances with commitments … quantify the profitability effects of mergers and merger control decisions. The basic idea is to relate announcement and …

This paper analyses all final merger decisions by the European Commission from the beginning of 1990 up to the end of … 2019. We use a novel dataset, containing information about 6245 merger cases from all economic sectors and combining all … sorts of decisions, inclusive of withdrawn and prohibited cases. Using text analyses techniques, we first analyse merger …

This paper sets out the findings of an ex-post economic assessment of the conditionally approved merger between Pioneer … considered by the competition authorities in evaluating the matter. The merger was prohibited by the Competition Tribunal, but … this decision was overturned by the Competition Appeal Court which approved the three-to-two merger subject to behavioural …

The paper studies the effects of the Pfizer and Pharmacia (2003) merger on competition in the Swiss pharmaceutical … market and compares the assessment of the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) with the post-merger market developments. We … find that the merger has had a miniscule impact on the Swiss pharmaceutical market. This has primarily to do with the fact …