Search Results - subject:"Merger Regulation"

Haufler, Andreas; Schulte, Christian - 2007

In many situations governments have sector-specific tax and regulation poli- cies at their disposal to in°uence the market outcome after a national or an international merger has taken place. In this paper we study the implications for merger policy when countries non-cooperatively deploy...

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Merger Policy and Tax Competition

Haufler, Andreas; Schulte, Christian - 2007

In many situations governments have sector-specific tax and regulation policies at their disposal to influence the market outcome after a national or an international merger has taken place. In this paper we study the implications for merger policy when countries non-cooperatively deploy...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427479

Structural Remedies in Merger Regulation in a Cournot Framework

Medvedev, Andrei - Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia - 2007

To prevent possible abuse of market power, an antitrust agency can force merging firms to divest some of their assets. The divested assets can be sold via auction either to existing competitors or to a new entrant. Divestiture of assets extends the range of parameters when a merger satisfies a...

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La prise en considération de critères « extraconcurrentiels » dans le droit communautaire de la concurrence

Dyevre, Arthur - In: Revue internationale de droit économique t. XXI, 4 (2007) 4, pp. 415-440

This article examines whether and to what extent the EC Treaty and the Merger Regulation allow the Commission and other …-maximising ends. Under EU law these goals may play a role in the application of competition rules. The Treaty and the Merger … Regulation, however, severely restrict the role of these considerations. Reflecting the liberal orientation of the European …

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Merger Policy and Tax Competition

Haufler, Andreas; Schulte, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

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Bargaining over Remedies in Merger Regulation

Lyons, Bruce; Medvedev, Andrei - Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia - 2007

This paper provides a first attempt to understand how outcomes are determined by the standard institutions of merger control. In particular, we focus on the internationally standard 2-phase investigation structure and remedy negotiations of the form practiced by the EC. We find that there are...

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Merger Policy and Tax Competition

Haufler, Andreas; Schulte, Christian - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

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Merger Policy and Tax Competition

Haufler, Andreas; Schulte, Christian - CESifo - 2007

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Merger policy and tax competition

Haufler, Andreas; Schulte, Christian - 2007

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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 … regulation. By incorporating Type I and Type II errors into the antitrust agency's pay-off function approval probabilities are …

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