increased politicization of merger enforcement, and it would weaken competition as a design-principle for a market economy. This … market economy, inter alia in merger control. The interests of employees in decent wages, merger impacts on the environment … article claims that society at large is better served with a merger control regime that devotes itself to consumer welfare …

constraining administrative action and ensures that judicial review in EU merger control remains effective … focuses on horizontal mergers in the so-called ‘gap’ cases, which would not result in the creation or the strengthening of a … (single or collective) dominant position. In its practice and soft law instruments, the Commission has construed Article 2 in …

principles informing merger policy such as the presumed profitability of mergers for the merging firms and the merger …Common ownership fundamentally upsets the well-settled merger enforcement ecosystem. Not only it challenges basic …-specificity of potential efficiencies but also it works against implementing tools and presumptions in merger practice such as …

competition policy has also been called into question. In particular, some observers argued that EU merger control prevented … whether industrial policy should take priority over competition policy in the area of merger control in light of these …The relationship between industrial policy and merger control is one of the most controversial topics in European …

play at least some role in the competition between firms.This paper will introduce these characteristics, and the merger … analysis when considering merger effects for markets with competition on non-price dimensions. Risks of introducing …-price dimensions of competition, namely identifying when they are important, and considering price and non-price effects together …

-ecosystem companies. This is a new perspective for competition law; and it is certainly disruptive for the old-school relevant market … the competitive parameters in the market for which digital ecosystems compete with each other and/or other non … numbers. The purpose is not to come up with a new market definition or new type of market dominance based on the acquisition …

in future competition and revenues, judging by the prices paid. China has its own set of firms and institutions, behind … present novel challenges to competition authorities that are imperfectly explained in economic theory, with the platforms …The growth of Internet access enabled the creation of functions (e.g., e-commerce and search) that were initially …

that the merger did not show any changes of control rights regulated in the law and only was considered as sales of an … this line, some leading competition authorities worry that the current merger review policy can undermine the possible … approved the merger without any conditions. The Indonesian competition authority did not apply the competition law, arguing …

important goal of both antitrust law and merger policy.Based on the existing evidence, an empirically supported basis for the … use of differential analyses for labor or for presumptions in labor markets does not clearly exist at this time. Merger … enforcement should continue to use careful fact-based economic analysis to guide both enforcement and policy directed at mergers …

“may be substantially to lessen competition or to tend to create a monopoly.” The statute uses “may” instead of other terms … a tougher approach to merger enforcement than these alternatives. The plain words of Section 7, moreover, do not contain …Advocates of vigorous antitrust enforcement should not fear the rise of textualism. The Sherman Act, Clayton Act and …