use a novel database that identifies over 20,000 product/geographic antitrust markets affected by over2,000 mergers …

use a novel database that identifies over 20,000 product/geographic antitrust markets affected by over 2,000 mergers …

In the last decades, many European hospital markets witnessed a wave of mergers leading to increased levels of market … concentration. The effects of hospital mergers and the effectiveness of competition enforcement have been discussed by politicians … but understudied by academics. This report studies how hospital mergers impact hospital service provision by focusing on …

Worldwide, the overwhelming majority of large horizontal mergers are cleared by antitrust authorities unconditionally …. The presumption seems to be that efficiencies from these mergers are sizeable. We calculate the compensating efficiencies … that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for 1,014 mergers affecting 12,325 antitrust markets scrutinized by the …

Worldwide, the overwhelming majority of large horizontal mergers are cleared by antitrust authorities unconditionally …. The presumption seems to be that efficiencies from these mergers are sizeable. We calculate the compensating efficiencies … that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for 1,014 mergers affecting 12,325 antitrust markets scrutinized by the …

merger enforcement. The policy debate shows that one of the key arguments put forward when supporting potential mergers is … little empirical evidence on the actual effects of realized mergers on cost efficiencies. We exploit a large and highly …

merger enforcement. The policy debate shows that one of the key arguments put forward when supporting potential mergers is … little empirical evidence on the actual effects of realized mergers on cost efficiencies. We exploit a large and highly …

Worldwide, the overwhelming majority of large horizontal mergers are cleared by antitrust authorities unconditionally …. The presumption seems to be that efficiencies from these mergers are sizeable. We calculate the compensating efficiencies … that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for 1,014 mergers affecting 12,325 antitrust markets scrutinized by the …