merger agreements have therefore shifted from generally favoring sellers to favoring buyers.Whether the recent trend toward … buyer-friendly merger covenants has also affected antitrust risk-shifting provisions has not yet been examined. We surveyed … the 30 largest largest merger agreements from 2007 and 2008 to identify any patterns or trends in antitrust risk …

Should internet era merger policy differ from industrial era merger policy? Platform ecosystems rely on economies of … traditional merger policy tools. This paper examines the acquisition strategies of the five major U.S. platforms—Google, Amazon …, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft— since their inception. We discuss the main merger and acquisition theories of harm and how …

This Article explores the 2010 merger of United Airlines and Continental Airlines - which usurped Delta's briefly …-held title as the world's largest airline - as well as the failed merger of Greece's two largest airlines, Olympic Air and Aegean … United and Continental merger, explaining pertinent portions of each airline's corporate history over the past 10 years …

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. …

reactions around the day of the merger's announcement provide information on the first question, whereas the stock market … hypotheses on the effects that remedies are supposed to achieve depending on the merger's competitive outcome. We isolate several … merging firms' bargaining power during the second phase of the merger review. …

that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for 1,014 mergers affecting 12,325 antitrust markets scrutinized by the … concerns about the Commission’s merger enforcement being too lax. …

We estimate the deterrence effects of European Commission (EC) merger policy instruments over the 1990-2009 period. Our … remedies, and preventions – phase-1 remedies lead to fewer merger notifications in subsequent years. Furthermore, the …

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 …