coordinated and unilateral competitive effects of merger. The central issue considered is when and how market shares, and market … concentration statistics derived from them, form an appropriate basis for presuming harm to competition from merger. This revision …

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. …

effects. -- merger simulation ; merger control ; antitrust ; oligopoly theory ; auction models ; mergers & acquisitions … employment of merger simulation models in merger control procedures during the past almost 15 years. Merger simulation is … of state-of-the-art merger simulation models and review their previous employment in merger cases as well as the problems …

effects. -- merger simulation ; merger control ; antitrust ; oligopoly theory ; auction models ; mergers & acquisitions … employment of merger simulation models in merger control procedures during the past almost 15 years. Merger simulation is … of state-of-the-art merger simulation models and review their previous employment in merger cases as well as the problems …

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 …

assessment of anticompetitive innovation effects in merger review. By focusing on the applied U.S. Antitrust, it turns out that …

This Essay provides an overview of U.S. antitrust merger practice in addressing efficiencies both in terms of actual … practitioners play during the merger process in shaping whether or not the agencies will litigate a case, or the types of issues … that end in litigation. Moreover, the article does not sufficiently analyze merger enforcement decisions at the agencies …

post-merger R&D efforts (including lower expenditure). SIEIC is distinct from the mainstream unilateral effects theory of … applied in merger cases? This paper is divided into three sections. In Section I, the SIEIC theory of harm is described and … recently, the European Commission (“Commission”) used its powers under the EU Merger Regulation (“EUMR”) to impose remedies in …

This paper deals with the optimal enforcement of competition law between merger and anti-cartel policies. We examine … merger's coordinated effect is taken into account, then for a sufficiently large such effect the agency may optimally have to …