proactive sector/industry investigations as well es merger control in relation to non-horizontal mergers and acquisitions. … der Wettbewerbspolitik an. Damit zeigt der Beitrag, dass dynamische Wettbewerbstheorien sehr wohl zu konkreten … Regulierung systemischer Marktmacht in digitalen Ökosystemen, anlassunabhängige Wettbewerbspolitik und sanktionsbewehrte …

ein ministererlaubtes Kartell häufig weniger starke negative Wettbewerbswirkungen hätte, als eine irreversible Fusion. Aus … instrument of ministerial approval for mergers under Section 42 GWB, the Federal Minister of Economics could grant an exemption … ministerial cartel and ministerial approval for mergers, which shows that a ministerially approved cartel is likely to burden less …

ein ministererlaubtes Kartell häufig weniger starke negative Wettbewerbswirkungen hätte, als eine irreversible Fusion. Aus … instrument of ministerial approval for mergers under Section 42 GWB, the Federal Minister of Economics could grant an exemption … ministerial cartel and ministerial approval for mergers, which shows that a ministerially approved cartel is likely to burden less …

derive four recommendations for the future enforcement of abuse control and related merger control: (i) we advocate to … corresponding merger control. While going beyond pure guideline recommendations and focusing on a dynamic-economic view, we are …

acquisition of DoubleClick raises important questions for antitrust authorities. Proponents of this acquisition argue that Google …, we examine economic evidence and legal precedent to help identify the relevant antitrust product market for Google …'s proposed acquisition of DoubleClick. According to the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Horizontal Merger …

The use of conduct remedies in merger enforcement raises a number of serious issues, and it may be difficult or … impossible to use these remedies as the basis for a competitively desirable relief. Thus, the antitrust authorities should make … at most only a limited use of these remedies and should continue to prefer divestiture. Moreover, the U.S. antitrust …

willingness to pay for new technologies falls abruptly, diminishing private returns on future innovations. We consider antitrust …

This paper provides an economic analysis of recent vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. industry for audiovisual … media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine … economic effects of these types of mergers on market competition, focusing on digital media content distribution. In doing so …

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 …

We study the effect of a merger in a dynamic high-technology industry-the videogame market- which is characterized by … frequent introduction of new products. To assess the impact of the merger between two large specialist retailers in the UK, we … suggest that there has been a reduction in the general level of prices of both new and pre-owned games after the merger. This …