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Public interest considerations in European merger control regimes

Budzinski, Oliver; Stöhr, Annika - 2019

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 …

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Merger Control under China's Anti-Monopoly Law

Sokol, D. Daniel - 2022

This paper explores the factors that drive merger outcomes under China's Anti-Monopoly Law (AML). The paper overcomes the problem of a small number of published merger decisions through a unique practitioner survey of antitrust lawyers across multiple jurisdictions. This survey captures...

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A Price Leadership Model for Merger Analysis

Mansley, Ryan; Miller, Nathan; Sheu, Gloria; Weinberg, … - 2022

We provide a methodology to simulate the coordinated effects of a proposed merger using data commonly available to antitrust authorities. The model follows the price leadership structure in Miller, Sheu, and Weinberg (2021) in an environment with logit or nested logit demand. The model...

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Merger Review in the Digital Markets Act

Carugati, Christophe - 2022

The co-legislators adopted the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in July 2022. The text is landmark legislation that imposes a list of ex-ante obligations and interdictions on large online platforms acting as “gatekeepers” in some core platform services (CPS). Yet, the DMA also imposes an obligation...

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A Systematic Review of Hospital Merger Control in the NHS : Once Upon a Time in England

Loozen, Edith - 2022

systems by carrying out the surveillance duties bestowed upon them by law. We study hospital merger control in the English NHS …-quality public hospital services. To make this work, it also brought in external and binding merger control for mergers between NHS … collaboration but about consolidation, and that objective merger control serves to protect efficient collaboration by prohibiting …

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Regulation of Mergers in the Digital Markets : A Comparative Analysis

Rahim, Mohsin - 2022

The dynamic nature of the digital markets has forced regulators to keep a close eye on the changes in the technology which impact the prevailing legislation. This reliance on technology has led to the emergence and importance of consumer data via which companies generate revenue and maximize...

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Microsoft/Activision – Market Definition and Theories of Harm Under EU Competition Law

Ziermann, Fabian - 2022

Whilst the acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft is yet to be notified to the European Commission, once notified it will certainly require a substantial competition law assessment. This article discusses the Commission’s decisional practice relating to market definition in gaming...

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Merger Control of IRPs : Automated Route for Distressed Firms?

Tiwari, Pankhudi; Singh, Anjali - 2022

The Competition Law Review Committee suggested that Insolvency Resolution Plans ("IRPs") that result in combinations unlikely to have an Appreciable Adverse Effect be green-channelled in July 2019. This essentially meant that there would be an automatic acceptance of IRP combinations barring any...

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Prospects and Limits of Merger Simulations as a Computational Antitrust Tool

Budzinski, Oliver; Noskova, Victoriia - 2022

Computational antitrust is gaining high attention from competition authorities worldwide. In this paper, we examine the promises and downsides of merger simulations as a tool of computational antitrust. In doing this, we first provide an overview of the working mechanisms of the merger...

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Limits to Buyer Power : Input Prices and Pass-Through in Horizontal Merger Policy

Dix, Rebekah; Lensman, Todd - 2022

We re-examine the “buyer power” defense to horizontal mergers using models of imperfect competition in which input prices are set before goods prices. We derive a measure of unilateral incentives to adjust input prices after a downstream merger, Input Pricing Pressure, and we use it to show...

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