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Perkins, Joe; Shekhar, Shiva - In: Review of industrial organization 64 (2024) 4, pp. 533-548

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Sequential Mergers and Competition Policy under Partial Privatization

Ebina, Takeshi - 2017

This study assesses the conditions under which sequential mergers can emerge in a partially privatized oligopoly with differentiated goods. In particular, it examines:(i) the optimal merger strategies by potential merging firms, (ii) optimal merger policy, and (iii) privatization policy of...

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The Merger Specificity of Efficiencies in Merger Review : A Succinct International Comparison

Fofana, Mory Fodé - 2009

Mergers and acquisitions can lead to anti-competitive structural change in the market place. Despite this detrimental effect, mergers and acquisitions have also the potential to generate significant efficiencies through a better resource allocation and other forms of synergy that either merging...

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Shelving or developing? : the acquisition of potential competitors under financial constraints

Fumagalli, Chiara; Motta, Massimo; Tarantino, Emanuele - 2022 - This version: February 14th, 2022

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Market Concentration in the Antitrust Analysis of Horizontal Mergers

Baker, Jonathan B. - 2010

This handbook chapter appears in Antitrust Law & Economics (Keith Hylton, ed. 2010). It describes the role of market concentration in the legal framework for the antitrust review of horizontal mergers and evaluates the extent to which modern economic analysis supports a role for concentration in...

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Privacy as a Parameter of Competition in Merger Reviews

MacCarthy, Mark - 2020

This Article describes how merger reviews under current competition law are able to treat privacy as a dimension of competition. It illustrates this possibility through an examination of the European Commission’s reviews of the Facebook/WhatsApp merger and the Microsoft/LinkedIn merger. This...

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Innovation Markets, Future Markets, or Potential Competition : How Should Competition Authorities Account for Innovation Competition in Merger Reviews?

Kern, Benjamin R. - 2014

The relevant competitors in regard to innovation might, but not necessarily do, correspond to the identified competitors on actual product markets. Hence, the conventional analysis of product markets, in order to assess the potential anticompetitive effects of mergers, is insufficient to capture...

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Horizontal Merger Antitrust Enforcement : Some Historical Perspectives, Some Current Observations

White, Lawrence J. - 2006

The DOJ-FTC Merger Guidelines were developed for and best deal with horizontal mergers where the theory of harm is … coordinated effects. The Guidelines deal awkwardly, at best, with mergers where the theory of harm is unilateral effects. The … needed for inquiry and enforcement where the theory of harm is unilateral effects, as is a market definition paradigm for …

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Prophylactic Merger Policy

Hovenkamp, Herbert - 2019

An important purpose of the antitrust merger law is to arrest certain anticompetitive practices or outcomes in their “incipiency.” Many Clayton Act decisions involving both mergers and other practices had recognized the idea as early as the 1920s. In Brown Shoe the Supreme Court doubled down...

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Should DOJ’s Controversial Approach to Market Definition Control Merger Litigation, the Case of US v. H&R Block

Simons, Joseph J.; Coate, Malcolm B. - 2013

anticompetitive. In effect, theory, if allowed to control market definition analysis, would significantly reduce the plaintiff …

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