Nowadays, merger control predominantly relies upon a strict analysis of the effects from merger and acquisitions on … effective competition. However, there is scope for so-called public interest considerations in several European merger control …-competition-oriented interventions into merger control. For instance, they did so in the context of the prohibition of the Siemens-Alstommerger and the …

what kind of assessment concepts competition authorities should use for investigating innovation effects, e.g., in merger … competition in merger cases, this article suggests to analyze much more systematically the resources (specialized assets) that are …

merger control could also benefit from an ORAM-style conception. …

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 …

There are legal grounds to hear competitors in merger control proceedings, and competitor involvement has gained … in EU merger cases and give an overview of the legal discussion in the EU and US. …

We analyze evidence production in merger control as a delegation problem in an inquisitorial competition policy system …. The antitrust agency’s incentives to produce evidence on the efficiency of a merger proposal depend critically on its … implemented only after evidence on the efficiency of a merger proposal has been produced. …

scrutinized by the European Commission between 1995 and 2014. We show that concentration, as measured by the market-specific post-merger … dimension analyzed. Strict past merger enforcement negatively correlates with concentration. Yet, this effect is stronger in the …