In this comprehensive review of ex-post merger studies price effects of horizontal transactions are evaluated. By … combining and further analyzing the results of 52 retrospective studies on 82 mergers or merger-like transactions it can be … shown that the industry alone is no strong indication for the direction of price-related merger effects. However, the "size …

affects antitrust reviews of merger transactions. We find that acquirers and targets located in the political districts of …

pricing pressure, and the vertical arithmetic. In addition, for each tool, its use in a recent U.S. merger case is illustrated …: for critical loss analysis, the Novelis/Aleris merger; for upward pricing pressure, the GE/Electrolux merger; and for the …

We consider merger remedies of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division and the U.S. Federal Trade …

Nowadays, merger control predominantly relies upon a strict analysis of the effects from merger and acquisitions on … effective competition. However, there is scope for so-called public interest considerations in several European merger control …-competition-oriented interventions into merger control. For instance, they did so in the context of the prohibition of the Siemens-Alstommerger and the …

what kind of assessment concepts competition authorities should use for investigating innovation effects, e.g., in merger … competition in merger cases, this article suggests to analyze much more systematically the resources (specialized assets) that are …

merger control could also benefit from an ORAM-style conception. …