Horizontal Merger Guidelines in April 1997. The revisions broadened the scope of the analysis and clarified the framework for … determining when claimed efficiencies should be recognized in merger analysis. This study reviews how FTC staff have treated … verification and merger-specificity issues than concerns associated with validity, fixed costs, and pass-through …

Commission's interest in data is reflected in the authority currently weighing possible changes to merger rules to better capture …

This thesis focuses on collective dominance in horizontal concentrations as regulated under the EU Merger Regulation … such positions. Chapter 5 examines the alterations brought about by the Merger Regulation 139/2004 substantive test on the … appraisal of collective dominance, it focuses on the EU Horizontal Merger Guidelines’ analysis of coordinated effects and makes …

enforcement agency may challenge the merger, if any overlap is believed to be adversely affected by the transaction. While the …

This paper analyses all final merger decisions by the European Commission from the beginning of 1990 up to the end of … 2019. We use a novel dataset, containing information about 6245 merger cases from all economic sectors and combining all … sorts of decisions, inclusive of withdrawn and prohibited cases. Using text analyses techniques, we first analyse merger …