Mergers between competitors (i.e. horizontal mergers) come with two key theories of harm: unilateral effects and coordinated effects. In this paper, we review the appropriate economic framework for assessing coordinated effects in the context of a merger review. We focus on the three necessary...

This article reviews and critically assesses the ‘cost coordination’ theory of harm developed in a recent eponymous article, Harrington (2022), and its application to the EU trucks case. We conclude that, while the cost coordination theory is a valuable and interesting contribution to the...

Das Buch bietet eine aktuelle Einführung in die Sozialstrukturanalyse: Die Beschreibung und Analyse sozialer Strukturen betrifft letztlich alle Teilbereiche der Gesellschaft. Erfasst werden insbesondere die demographische Entwicklung, Haushalts- und Familienstrukturen und die soziale...