Affeldt, Pauline; Duso, Tomaso; Szücs, Florian - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 76 (2021), pp. 1-62
We study the determinants of common European merger policy over its first 25 years, from 1990 to 2014. Using a novel … dataset at the level of the relevant antitrust markets and containing all relevant merger cases notified to the European … increase in post-merger concentration and in complex mergers. Yet, its importance decreased following the 2004 merger policy …