We investigate the trade-off between financial stability and competition policy by focusing on the merger of ABN AMRO … and Fortis Bank NL in the Dutch retail banking market. The financial crisis delayed the completion of the merger giving … products using a random-coefficients logit model. On the supply side we assume Bertrand Nash competition in a multiproduct …

We analyze the role of bank mergers as determinants of the evolution of branch presence at the county level. Panel …- and post-crisis. The results indicate that bank mergers contributed to the increase of branches in the pre-crisis period …

The paper studies the effects of the Pfizer and Pharmacia (2003) merger on competition in the Swiss pharmaceutical … market and compares the assessment of the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) with the post-merger market developments. We … find that the merger has had a miniscule impact on the Swiss pharmaceutical market. This has primarily to do with the fact …