We find that stricter merger control legislation increases abnormal announcement returns of targets in bank mergers by … 7 percentage points. Analyzing potential explanations for this result, we document an increase in the pre-merger … other banks. Other merger properties, including the size and risk profile of targets, the geographic overlap of merging …

There are legal grounds to hear competitors in merger control proceedings, and competitor involvement has gained … in EU merger cases and give an overview of the legal discussion in the EU and US. …

the period 1990-2002 to assess the effectiveness of European merger control. The basic idea is to relate announcement and … decision abnormal returns. Under a set of four maintained assumptions, merger control might be interpreted to be effective if … rents accruing due to the increased market power observed around the merger announcement are reversed by the antitrust …

We analyze the effects of structural remedies on merger activity in a Cournot oligopoly when the Antitrust Agency (AA …) cannot observe a proposed merger's efficiency type. Provided the AA follows a consumer surplus standard, an efficient merger …

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 …

that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for 1,014 mergers affecting 12,325 antitrust markets scrutinized by the … concerns about the Commission’s merger enforcement being too lax. …