merger enforcement. The policy debate shows that one of the key arguments put forward when supporting potential mergers is … the possibility of realization of merger efficiency gains, specifically in the transport industry. Yet, there exists … debated merger that took place in the French transport industry to evaluate whether a merger between two major transport …

profitable beyond that participation ratio. This result may be called a cross-ownership paradox, analogous to the merger paradox … highlight that cross-ownership can be preferable to a horizontal merger under Cournot competition. Not only is it more …

We study the evolution of EC merger decisions over the first 25 years of common European merger policy. Using a novel … dataset at the level of the relevant antitrust markets and containing all merger cases scrutinized by the Commission over the … definition and the complexity of the merger. Simple, linear probability models as usually applied in the literature overestimate …

merger control could also benefit from an ORAM-style conception. …

.9%, as hypothesized by monopsony theory. Based on a simple merger simulation, we find that a merger between the top two …

Nowadays, merger control predominantly relies upon a strict analysis of the effects from merger and acquisitions on … effective competition. However, there is scope for so-called public interest considerations in several European merger control …-competition-oriented interventions into merger control. For instance, they did so in the context of the prohibition of the Siemens-Alstommerger and the …

I study the predictability of the EC’s merger decision procedure before and after the 2004 merger policy reform based … concerns in markets affected by a merger, I find that the predictive performance of the random forests is much better than the … concerns. Secondly, postreform, DG Comp seems to base its assessment on a more complex interaction of merger and market …

We analyze a large merger in the Dutch banking market during the financial crisis using disaggregated data. Based on a … merger simulation model, we evaluate merger-induced changes in the interest rates for savings accounts. We find that the …