the surreptitious influencing of voters through social media platforms. Cambridge Analytica was suspected of influencing … marketplaces such as Amazon and Airbnb would be required to verify the identity of professional users on their platforms. This … could significantly improve the quality of online platforms for users.Despite its selling points, however, the DSA proposal …

among attention rivals does not imply that antitrust should reduce the vigor with which it examines mergers and exclusionary …Many online businesses, including most of the largest platforms, seek and provide attention. These online attention …, necessarily, particular features of the products and services used for acquiring and delivering that attention. Antitrust analysis …

analysis. -- merger control ; media markets ; more-economic approach ; conglomerate mergers ; cross-promotion …We review the Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office Germany) decision on the proposed merger between Springer and … the decision document reflects state-of-the-art economic theory on conglomerate mergers. Regarding such types of mergers …

analyze mergers with this goal in mind. Doing so challenges the fundamental underpinnings of Williamsonian merger analysis …This is one of the first articles to demonstrate that the primary goal of antitrust is neither exclusively to enhance … economic efficiency, nor to address any social or political factor. Rather, the overriding intent behind the merger laws was to …

We estimate the deterrence effects of U.S. merger policy instruments with respect to the composition and frequency of … future merger notifications. Data from the Annual Reports by the U.S. DOJ and FTC allow industry based measures over the 1986 … challenge-rate to robustly deter future horizontal (both relative and absolute) merger activity; the investigation-rate to …

We estimate the deterrence effects of U.S. merger policy instruments with respect to the composition and frequency of … future merger notifications. Data from the Annual Reports by the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission … absolute) merger activity, and the court-loss rate to moderately affect absolute levels of horizontal-merger activity; however …

This paper aims to build and empirically evaluate a discrete choice model of merger remedies as a basis for policy … analysis. The database consists of 229 merger cases accepted in Phase I or Phase II of the European merger process between 1990 …

China's merger enforcement agency approved the Google/Motorola merger with conditions. This pattern of approval is not … protect domestic industry. In investigating the Chinese merger agency's decision and the basis for its decision making, this …. It is important for international firms to be aware of this pattern in merger analysis …

antitrust enforcement. It shows that empirical economic studies, experimental results, real-world examples, and economic theory … effective, whether through purposive or non-purposive conduct. This supports a structural merger policy, by which mergers …This article takes a fresh look at a longstanding issue in antitrust economics and policy: the problem of oligopoly …

dataset at the level of the relevant antitrust markets and containing all merger cases scrutinized by the Commission over the …We study the evolution of EC merger decisions over the first 25 years of common European merger policy. Using a novel … definition and the complexity of the merger. Simple, linear probability models as usually applied in the literature overestimate …