The duration of merger proceedings held by competition authorities is an important determinant of the efficiency of the … entire merger control process. We use a dataset of 2953 Phase I and 92 Phase II investigations completed by the European … also provide evidence that the significant increase in average duration identified after the 2004 merger regulation reform …

breakdowns with the three years afterwards. Second, for the subset of horizontal mergers, merger activity is found to increase …We investigate the impact of cartel breakdowns on merger activity. Merging information on cartel cases decided by the … European Commission (EC) between 2000 and 2011 with a detailed data set of worldwide merger activity, we find that, first, the …

consider the effects of a horizontal merger on other competition variables such as product variety, marketing as well as R …The paper develops a four-step framework to detect anticompetitive horizontal mergers. In the first step, an estimate … of the impact of the merger on the market price needs to be derived. Subsequent, the second step of the framework has to …

breakdowns with the three years afterwards. Second, for the subset of horizontal mergers, merger activity is found to increase …We investigate the impact of cartel breakdowns on merger activity. Merging information on cartel cases decided by the … European Commission (EC) between 2000 and 2011 with a detailed data set of worldwide merger activity, we find that, first, the …

consider the effects of a horizontal merger on other competition variables such as product variety, marketing as well as R …The paper develops a four-step framework to detect anticompetitive horizontal mergers. In the first step, an estimate … of the impact of the merger on the market price needs to be derived. Subsequent, the second step of the framework has to …

to study both competitive interaction in general and the potential price effects of a recently announced merger of the … empirical results suggest short-term price increases on certain route types post-merger, it remains an open question whether the … merger should be classified as anticompetitive. …

better matches of search ads are beneficial, I demonstrate that the mergers may have positive effects for consumers through …