In the last decades, many European hospital markets witnessed a wave of mergers leading to increased levels of market concentration. The effects of hospital mergers and the effectiveness of competition enforcement have been discussed by politicians but understudied by academics. This report...

In den letzten Jahrzehnten kam es auf vielen europäischen Krankenhausmärkten zu einer Fusionswelle, die zu einer zunehmenden Marktkonzentration geführt hat. Die Auswirkungen von Krankenhausfusionen und die wirksame Durchsetzung von Wettbewerbsrecht wurden von der Politik diskutiert, aber...

Worldwide, the overwhelming majority of large horizontal mergers are cleared by antitrust authorities unconditionally. The presumption seems to be that efficiencies from these mergers are sizeable. We calculate the compensating efficiencies that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for...

An increasing body of empirical evidence is documenting trends toward rising concentration, profits, and markups in many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market shares are poorly measured at the national industry level...

In the last decades, many European hospital markets witnessed a wave of mergers leading to increased levels of market concentration. The effects of hospital mergers and the effectiveness of competition enforcement have been discussed by politicians but understudied by academics. This report...

In den letzten Jahrzehnten kam es auf vielen europäischen Krankenhausmärkten zu einer Fusionswelle, die zu einer zunehmenden Marktkonzentration geführt hat. Die Auswirkungen von Krankenhausfusionen und die wirksame Durchsetzung von Wettbewerbsrecht wurden von der Politik diskutiert, aber...

Worldwide, the overwhelming majority of large horizontal mergers are cleared by antitrust authorities unconditionally. The presumption seems to be that efficiencies from these mergers are sizeable. We calculate the compensating efficiencies that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for...

An increasing body of empirical evidence is documenting trends toward rising concentration, profits, and markups in many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market shares are poorly measured at the national industry level...