account in merger policy. Although we can show in our study that in one third of all challenged mergers also innovation … and 2008 were analyzed in regard to the question to what extent and how the agencies assessed the innovation effects of … mergers. Theoretical background is the still open question how negative effects of mergers on innovation should be taken into …

assessment of anticompetitive innovation effects in merger review. By focusing on the applied U.S. Antitrust, it turns out that …The relevant competitors in regard to innovation might, but not necessarily do, correspond to the identified … anticompetitive effects of mergers, is insufficient to capture innovation competition in its full extent. As a consequence, the aim of …

assessment of anticompetitive innovation effects in merger review. By focusing on the applied U.S. Antitrust, it turns out that …The relevant competitors in regard to innovation might, but not necessarily do, correspond to the identified … anticompetitive effects of mergers, is insufficient to capture innovation competition in its full extent. As a consequence, the aim of …

, we address three research questions: (i) Is the current development of analyzing industry with its recent merger activity … merger control in this industry, as well as a more active abuse control against already vertically-integrated media companies. …

what kind of assessment concepts competition authorities should use for investigating innovation effects, e.g., in merger …The digital revolution has reinvigorated the discussion about the problem how to consider innovation in the application … of competition law. This raises difficult questions about the relationship between competition and innovation as well as …

in the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. Through a model of enforcement, we find that agencies challenge mergers they expect …

in the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. Through a model of enforcement, we find that agencies challenge mergers they expect …

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 …