merger to monopoly transactions, albeit both subject to the divestment of selected assets to an entrant. One of these … transactions was Kantar Media’s 2017 acquisition of Newsaccess. Prior to 2017 the CCPC had prohibited mergers to monopoly. Does … this apparent relaxation mark a sea change in CCPC merger policy? Taking the Kantar Media/Newsaccess merger as a case study …

and Consumer Protection Commission, Ireland’s competition agency. Instead the agency cleared the merger subject to the … outsourced supply of flat linen rental and maintenance services to healthcare customers that the three to two merger would lead … anticompetitive effect of the merger: for customers that are the counterparties to the three contracts, the remedy will result in …

In this paper we empirically analyse two counterfactual situations facing an anti-trust authority following the merger … independent estimates available. We then use the model to simulate the proposed merger and the partial divestiture that was … to assess the welfare implications of proposed mergers and partial divestitures. …