Economic analysis of competition regulation is most developed in the domain of horizontal mergers, and modern agency … guidelines reflect a substantial consensus on the appropriate template for merger assessment. Nevertheless, official protocols … standard models, and more broadly to diverge with how economic analysis of proposed mergers should be and often is conducted …

Recently there has been a notable increase in interest in antitrust law in much of the world. This chapter discusses … antitrust policy toward horizontal mergers, the area of antitrust that has seen some of the most dramatic improvements in both …, merger laws and enforcement practices, econometric methods for analyzing prospective horizontal mergers, and evidence …

emergence of new business models. The increasing roles of digital platforms as well as data-driven markets represent two …

-called more economic approach in the 2000s). This contribution reviews the state of the art in antitrust-oriented modern … industrial economics and, in particular, critically discusses open questions and possible limits of basing antitrust on modern …

Das Instrument der Ministererlaubnis ist ein vieldiskutierter Sonderfall in der deutschen Wettbewerbspolitik, bei …

employment of merger simulation models in merger control procedures during the past almost 15 years. Merger simulation is …, nevertheless, still a very young and innovative instrument of antitrust and, therefore, its 'technical' potential is far from being … comprehensively exploited and teething problems in its practical use in the antitrust environment prevail. We provide a classification …

Digital platforms have reshaped many product markets and play an increasingly important role in economies around the … globe. Some of these platforms have become powerful players and may possess a lot of market power. Economists use a number … context of digital platforms. In particular, we focus on assessing entrenched market power and the role of potential …

The power of today’s tech giants has prompted calls for changes in antitrust law and policy which, for decades, has … been exceedingly permissive in merger enforcement and in constraining dominant firm conduct. Economically, the fear is that … the largest digital platforms are so dominant and its data advantage so substantial that competition is foreclosed …

) with a focus on how they affect and change competition and markets. Section 4 summarizes landmark antitrust cases and … current antitrust concerns re-garding electronic marketplaces like Facebook, Google, or Amazon. Based upon the state of …