Search Results - subject:"Efficiency defence"

The new European Regulation on vertical restraints

Piero, Barucci; Andrea, Barone - In: Mercato Concorrenza Regole (2010) 3, pp. 431-446

'acquirente. In secondo luogo, la cosiddetta "efficiency defence" è ora consentita anche in relazione alle restrizioni fondamentali …

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A failed assault? Reflections on the «more economic approach» to the abuse of dominant position

Gustavo, Ghidini; Emanuela, Arezzo - In: Mercato Concorrenza Regole (2010) 1, pp. 115-138

In Europa, l'affermazione del c.d. "economic approach" alla interpretazione ed applicazione del diritto antitrust cominciò, come noto, con l'introduzione di una valutazione più benevola delle intese verticali rispetto a quelle orizzontali, per proseguire con il nuovo regolamento sulle...

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Merger Performance and Efficiencies in Horizontal Merger Policy in the US and the EU

Kamerbeek, S.P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In current horizontal merger policy in the US and the EU an explicit efficiency defense is allowed. On both sides of the Atlantic mergers are unconditionally approved if internal efficiencies are sufficient to reverse the mergers’ potential to harm consumers in the relevant market. Current...

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On the effective design of the efficiency defence.

Cosnita, Andreea; Tropeano, Jean-Philippe - Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Paris 1 … - 2006

The efficiency defence was long delayed in the European merger control due to costly implementation issues. In this … paper we argue that the upstream consequences of the efficiency defence should equally be considered, namely the improvement … of merger remedies on the incentives conveyed by the efficiency defence, and conclude on the optimal design of the …

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Efficiency Defence, Administrative Fuzziness, and Commitment in Merger Regulation

Medvedev, Andrei - Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia - 2006

This paper develops a signalling model to look at some effects of the inclusion of an efficiency defence in merger …

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Firms Merge in Response to Constraints

boone, jan - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

Theoretical IO models of horizontal mergers and acquisitions make the critical assumption of efficiency gains.Without efficiency gains, these models predict either that mergers are not profitable or that mergers are welfare reducing.A problem here is the empirical observation that on average...

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On the Effective Design of the Efficiency Defence

Cosnita, Andreea; Tropeano, Jean-Philippe - HAL - 2006

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Efficiency Gains from Mergers

Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stennek, Johan; Verboven, Frank - 2000

investigation, including an efficiency defence. …

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Efficiency Gains from Mergers

Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stennek, Johan; Verboven, Frank - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

stage test are subject to further investigation, including an efficiency defence. …

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