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An institutional analysis of the enforcement problems in merger control
Budzinski, Oliver - 2010
The literature identifies a significant drop in merger control enforcement activity on both sides of the Atlantic during the last decade. Furthermore, this drop in enforcement activity is convincingly connected to enforcement problems on the sides of the competition agencies. This paper goes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321676
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Merger Control and Enterprise Competitiveness - Empirical Analysis and Policy Recommendations
Stennek, Johan; Verboven, Frank - 2001
This report studies the importance of efficiency gains from horizontal mergers. A general theme throughout this report is that efficiency gains, and their pass-on to consumers, may vary substantially from merger to merger. For this reason it seems appropriate to reconsider current practice in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334755
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Merger simulation in competition policy: A survey
Budzinski, Oliver; Ruhmer, Isabel - 2009
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, nevertheless, still a very young and innovative instrument...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321675
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Modern industrial economics and competition policy: Open problems and possible limits
Budzinski, Oliver - 2009
oligopoly theory, has become the dominating paradigm both in the U.S. (since the 1990s Post-Chicago movement) and in the EU (so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321698
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Efficiency Gains from Mergers
Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stennek, Johan; Verboven, Frank - 2000
The purpose of this report is to contribute to the analysis of two questions. Should a merger control system take into account efficiency gains from horizontal mergers, and balance these gains against the anti-competitive effects of mergers? If so, how should a system be designed to account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335109
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Wettbewerb als Hypothesentest: Implikationen für die moderne Wettbewerbspolitik?
Budzinski, Oliver - 2024
Sektoruntersuchungen, sowie die Fusionskontrolle nicht-horizontaler Zusammenschlüsse. …This paper applies dynamic competition theory to current topics and controversies in competition policy. In doing so …, it showcases how dynamic competition theory allows for specific competition policy recommendations and can contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014547794
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The prohibition of the proposed Springer-ProSiebenSat-1-merger: how much economics in German merger control?
Budzinski, Oliver; Wacker, Katharina - 2007
decision document reflects state-of-the-art economic theory on conglomerate mergers. Regarding such types of mergers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265759
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Critical loss analysis in market definition and merger control
Hüschelrath, Kai - 2009
The last couple of years have seen an increasing interest in critical loss analysis, both, in academia and in practice. This development is documented by various research papers, high-level exchanges between antitrust experts as well as an increasing number of case decisions which make use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299843
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The prohibition of the proposed Springer-ProSiebenSat.1-Merger: how much economics in German merger control?
Budzinski, Oliver; Wacker, Katharina - 2007
the decision document reflects state-of-the-art economic theory on conglomerate mergers. Regarding such types of mergers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300231
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Ministererlaubnis für Kartellfälle: Kooperation im Sinne des Gemeinwohls?
Budzinski, Oliver; Stöhr, Annika - 2020
Mit der Umsetzung der 7. Novelle des Gesetzes gegen Wettbewerbsbe-schränkungen (GWB) wurde im Jahr 2005 die Ausnahmeregelung des sog. Ministerkartells nach § 8 GWB ersatzlos gestrichen. Ähnlich dem noch bestehenden Instrument der Ministererlaubnis für Fusionen nach § 42 GWB konnte bis dahin...
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