consultants) anticipate the critical questions and potential paths that should be addressed regarding antitrust merger risk. This … affected merger review, investments, decision making, and counsel. The surveys also offer antitrust agencies an opportunity to … think about the optimal design of the merger control system and various consequences of certain policy choices and …

Merger remedies are an area of increasing complexity around the world. They are also an area of increased focus by … view of how high tech markets work in their merger remedies and, by implication, dominance cases — especially considering …

attributable to the markets of concern. (i.e., by the “overlap”). If an antitrust agency challenges a merger having only a small … risks and time-delays) on the agency and firms. Given over 20 years of experience with modern merger analysis, it is …

Three years ago, the Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission revised their Horizontal Merger Guidelines to … frequently made, as for instance in the recently proposed merger between Heinz and Beech-Nut in the market for baby food. While … these revisions to the Guidelines have a solid economic basis, they leave open many questions, both in theory and in …

, and addresses policy concerns about merger efficiencies, error costs, the impact of heighted scrutiny of such mergers on …

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. …

scrutinized by the European Commission between 1995 and 2014. We show that concentration, as measured by the market-specific post-merger … dimension analyzed. Strict past merger enforcement negatively correlates with concentration. Yet, this effect is stronger in the …