In current horizontal merger policy in the US and the EU an explicit efficiency defense is allowed. On both sides of …’ potential to harm consumers in the relevant market. Current merger policy is implicitly based on the assumption that rational … managers will only propose privately profitable mergers. In this thesis I will show that the empirical evidence on merger …

The article tackles the key-points of the European Commission decision clearing a complex merger in which a situation … of ex-post near-monopoly was created. The article mainly deals with the counter-factual analysis where the merger would … briefly mentions the 2002/2003 debate preceding the adoption of the new EC merger regulation 139/04: the scope of the EC …

This third overview of EU competition and sector-specific regulatory jurisprudential and case law developments with a … butadiene rubber cartel case (e.g. in Trade-Stomil v Commission). Finally, the Commission dealt with a merger case with a truly …