Federal Trade Commission’s recently release draft merger guidelines, and comments by FTC chair Lina Khan, it likely the agency … will move to block the merger—even if the companies offer to spin off stores to competing chains. The FTC will face an … uphill battle. Kroger’s CEO has indicated the company is “committed to litigate” if the agency attempts to block the merger …

without any merger scrutiny. The theoretical basis of this recommendation is the ‘failing firm defence’ which allows parties … merger. This paper assesses the advisability of green-channelling IRPs through the lens of competition law. It examines the …

assumption were held, a positive external effect of a proposed merger would represent a sufficient condition to allow the merger … this restrictive assumption and allow for unprofitable mergers to occur. This exerts a considerable impact on merger policy … effect does not represent a sufficient condition for the allowance of a merger any longer. Applying such a rule would cause a …

We study the effect of a merger in a dynamic high-technology industry - the videogame market - which is characterized … by frequent introduction of new products. To assess the impact of the merger between two large specialist retailers in … the merger. This decline has been more marked for the merging parties, which suggests that the merger between Game and …

mergers. If this assumption held, a positive external effect of a proposed merger would represent a sufficient condition to … allow the merger. However, the empirical picture on mergers and acquisitions reveals a significant share of unprofitable … merger policy conclusions: while several insights of the original analysis are corroborated (f.i. efficiency defence), a …

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

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 …

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 …