Commission's January 18, 2022, Request for Information on Merger Enforcement. Despite information and uncertainty problems with … exercise involved in potential/nascent competition cases should differ from a standard merger review. Third, analysis of …

pursuant to Articles 81, 82 and 86 EC Treaty, as well as landmark European merger cases. The decisions are organized according …

standards in the horizontal merger guidelines. Combined, the breakdown of the antitrust regulatory sandbox threatens innovation …, creates additional costs to the merger system, and chills the types of mergers that should be made. To the extent that the …

This paper studies the use of merger review as a shield to obstacle hostile tender offers of a company. Commenting on …

' incentives to innovate ex post. We then discuss these mechanisms in the context of several illustrative merger reviews and …'s decision to challenge the merger. And, finally, to provide specific guidance to antitrust practitioners on navigating agency … to assess innovation effects in recent merger reviews …

In this review of retrospective European merger studies we provide a discussion of the price effect of analysed mergers … followed by a price-increase, suggesting that, in our sample, merger interventions were effective at eliminating problems. High … market concentration was more likely to lead to higher post-merger prices, although remedies were able to reduce post-merger …

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. …