to the merger. We show that a PPO reduces the minimal synergy level necessary to make a merger beneficial for consumers …. It follows that an antitrust authority ignoring existing PPOs when evaluating merger proposals (which reflects the … current EU merger control regime) invites sneaky takeovers: Acquiring firms strategically use PPOs prior to a full merger …

This article aims at studying the economic dimension of the bargaining process in merger control by using the latest … results from the literature. After recalling the classic typology of merger remedies, we look at what is at stake in the … negotiation between merging parties and the competition authority. The tradeoff between merger remedies, efficiency gains expected …

We investigate the impact of cartel breakdowns on merger activity. Merging information on cartel cases decided by the … European Commission (EC) between 2000 and 2011 with a detailed data set of worldwide merger activity, we find that, first, the … average number of all merger transactions increase by up to 51 percent when comparing the three years before the cartel …

that in absence of any penalty on cartel, a firm always prefers a cartel to merger, when the latter does not involve any … concentration among the competitive fringe lowers the profitability of merger as compared to cartel. We then discuss the impact of … antitrust regulation against cartel in the absence and presence of merger regulations. We find that in our model, regulation …