, announced their agreement to merge. Seven months later, the Federal Trade Commission voted 4 to 1 to oppose the merger on the … and granted a preliminary injunction, effectively dooming the merger.Staples broke new ground in terms of both the … traditionally focused on the increased probability of collusion following a merger as the primary theoretical underpinning for …

We describe a simple initial indicator of whether a proposed merger between rivals in a differentiated product industry … from the merger, based on the price/cost margins of the merging firms' products and the extent of direct substitution …

assessment of a merger. One such type of empirical analysis refers to the assessment of the unilateral effects of the merger on … competition and one that is used in the definition of the relevant market. These two methods are the merger simulation and the …-mentioned empirical methods. Finally, in the last part of this article we will evaluate whether the methodology behind merger simulation …

particular merger since the degree of competition in a market crucially depends on how the boundaries of the market in product …