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 …

outcomes, and recommends tighter merger regulation. Since the works of both have been used to support more aggressive antitrust …

It is hard to assess the coordinated effect of mergers in solid and convincing fashion, in part because economic theory … using three indicators to determine whether and how a merger affects the probability of collusion. An example of application … of this approach to a real-world case (the AT&T/T-Mobile merger) is provided …

. Firms' assets are product varieties that can be sold individually or entirely transferred to another firm in a merger. We … for merger policy …

of a merger review. We focus on the three necessary conditions for a coordinated effect to arise post-merger: (i) firms … government (external stability conditions). We subsequently discuss the relevance of considering the merger-specificity of …