clearing the 2011 Comcast–NBC Universal merger provides a useful case study to examine whether such concerns are justified. A … the merger and which were more properly addressed through general rulemaking. Moreover, the use of voluntary commitments … offer a reasoned explanation or subjecting its decision to judicial review. The aftermath of the merger provides an …

While the Comcast/TWC merger is significant in size, it doesn’t give rise to any plausible theory of anticompetitive …. Critics repeatedly assert that the combined entity will gain bargaining leverage against content providers from the merger … content have significant bargaining power, and have been able to extract the prices to prove it. The argument that the merger …

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 …

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. …