-competitive effects that may result from mergers and acquisitions. In order to appropriately consider efficiency claims in the merger … efficiency gains in merger analysis …. Consequently, many antitrust agencies take into account the balancing effects of efficiency gains compared to anti …

This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first … theories of harm in major merger cases in the past few years. We then analyse the characteristics of almost 300 acquisitions … important merger cases, Facebook/Instagram and Google/Waze, providing a systematic assessment of the theories of harm considered …

primary driver behind holdup source: a contention supported by empirical tests based on the merger policies of 27 antitrust …

, which may not be possible since entry decisions are secret. By removing or mitigating this coordination failure, a merger … among laggards may lead to more entry (or innovation). Such a merger will also be more likely to benefit consumers when the … merger. Importantly, we find that in the presence of fixed entry costs and endogenous entry, fixed cost synergies are …

, particularly concerning its features and governance modes. The paper shows that neither an uniform world merger control nor a … systematically addresses economic arguments for centralization and decentralization of merger control competences within a multilevel … Competition Network, merger control, New Institutional Economics, international competition policy, diversity, antitrust …