Advances in competition economics as well as in computational and empirical methods have offered the scope for the … employment of merger simulation models in merger control procedures during the past almost 15 years. Merger simulation is … of state-of-the-art merger simulation models and review their previous employment in merger cases as well as the problems …

earlier versions of this paper. -- Merger control ; European competition policy ; antitrust ; enforcement problems …The literature identifies a significant drop in merger control enforcement activity on both sides of the Atlantic … the sides of the competition agencies. This paper goes beyond the identification of underenforcement and proceeds to the …

model, we simulate the consequences of counter-factual national merger regulation. The US beer price index would have been 4 …-7% higher without divestitures. Up to 30% savings could have been obtained in Latin America by emulating the pro-competition …

; merger control ; competition policy ; antitrust decisions ; comparative analysis …This paper provides a comparative analysis of methods for the empirical ex post evaluation of merger control decisions …. It develops a competition-policy oriented framework of assessment criteria for the leading evaluation methods and applies …

Naturally, competition policy is based on competition economics made applicable in terms of law and its enforcement …. Within the different branches of competition economics, modern industrial economics, or more precisely gametheoretic …-based competition policy on both sides of the Atlantic. In particular, the paper advocates a change of the way modern industrial …