We have revised our earlier listing of vertical merger enforcement actions by the Department of Justice and Federal … treated as an Appendix to Steven C. Salop and Daniel P. Culley, Revising the Vertical Merger Guidelines: Policy Issues and an …

This short article argues why the Competition Commission of India should elect to review the Facebook-WhatsApp merger … merger control jurisprudence of India and discusses the concept of a catch-all ‘regulatory jurisdiction,’ which should be …

While the Comcast/TWC merger is significant in size, it doesn’t give rise to any plausible theory of anticompetitive …. Critics repeatedly assert that the combined entity will gain bargaining leverage against content providers from the merger … content have significant bargaining power, and have been able to extract the prices to prove it. The argument that the merger …

We investigate cartelists’ merger behavior using European Commission (EC) cartel decisions over a 28-year span and … information on cartelists’ merger activities over the last 30 years. We find that mergers occur frequently. But they cluster in a … expedite mergers. The EC’s cartel settlement procedure delays merger. After cartel dissolution, co-conspirators merge at a …

We investigate cartelists' merger behavior using European Commission (EC) cartel decisions over a 28-year span and … information on cartelists' merger activities over the last 30 years. We find that mergers occur frequently but that they cluster …-conspirators merge at a substantially greater pace. The results shed light on the design of merger policies and enforcement programs …

efficiency - that have been absent from, if not violated by, the rulings in these merger cases …

The DOJ-FTC Merger Guidelines were developed for and best deal with horizontal mergers where the theory of harm is …

promises and downsides of merger simulations as a tool of computational antitrust. In doing this, we first provide an overview … of the working mechanisms of the merger simulation tool and then evaluate its implementation in competition policy … to reap considerable prospects of merger simulations as a computational antitrust tool …

The Hart Scott Rodino program, coupled with the modern Merger Guidelines has structured merger enforcement for the last …