assess merger control's effectiveness. By using data gathered from several sources and employing different evaluation … techniques, we analyze the economic effects of the European Commission's (EC) merger control decisions and distinguish between … merging and rival firms' stocks to quantify the profitability effects of mergers and merger control decisions. We back up our …

at the area of cross-border mergers. The conduct of a cross-border merger falls within the protective scope of the …

available to banks in individual EU countries help to account for cross-border merger activity. The paper explains how this …

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

Since 2004, EU merger control guidelines state the Commission will consider efficiencies as a part of its evaluation … investigate empirically all EU merger control decisions from 1991 to 2014, with an emphasis on Article 8 decisions since 2004 … discuss the reasons for this scarcity. To successfully raise an efficiency defence, parties would need to show the merger …

We analyze a large merger in the Dutch banking market during the financial crisis using disaggregated data. Based on a … merger simulation model, we evaluate merger-induced changes in the interest rates for savings accounts. We find that the …