Efficiencies have yet not played a prominent role in American merger enforcement policy, although the federal antitrust … agencies and the courts have recognized efficiencies as a factor in merger analysis that may tilt the balance in an otherwise … anticompetitive transaction. A review of the development of the Merger Guidelines and an analysis of the case law reveals that the …

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

The duration of merger proceedings held by competition authorities is an important determinant of the efficiency of the … entire merger control process. We use a dataset of 2953 Phase I and 92 Phase II investigations completed by the European … also provide evidence that the significant increase in average duration identified after the 2004 merger regulation reform …

die Wettbewerbspolitik insbesondere die Frage nach dem Effekt auf das Innovationsverhalten der Firmen relevant. …