This paper provides a comparative analysis of methods for the empirical ex post evaluation of merger control decisions …

We construct a unique dataset of legislative reforms in merger control legislation that occurred in nineteen industrial … hypothesis that merger control should challenge anticompetitive mergers and thus limit future monopolistic profits, we find that … the strengthening of merger control decreases the stock prices of non-financial firms. In contrast, we find that bank …

that, in several cases, national Governments set aside merger control rules to facilitate the creation of “national …

The relationship between industrial policy and merger control is one of the most controversial topics in European … early years of European merger control. However, following the adoption of the Merger Regulation in 1989, the European … competition policy has also been called into question. In particular, some observers argued that EU merger control prevented …