data set consisting of 442 firm groups that participated in 76 cartels decided by the European Commission between 2000 and …

data set consisting of 442 firm groups that participated in 76 cartels decided by the European Commission between 2000 and … in the cartelized market. Our results have important implications for an effective prosecution of anti-cartel law …

We provide an empirical assessment of EC cartel enforcement decisions between 2000 and 2011. Following an initial … characterisation of our dataset, we especially investigate the determinants of the duration of cartel investigations. We are able to … identify several key drivers of investigation length such as the Commission's speed of cartel detection, the type of cartel …

and welfare – improving even if costs are linear. The driving force behind these results, which help to reconcile theory … Unternehmen vor der Fusion. Wir zeigen in dieser Arbeit, dass horizontale Fusion von Unternehmen aus diesen Gründen profitabel für … die fusionierenden Unternehmen und wohlfahrtserhöhend wirken kann, selbst dann, wenn es durch die Fusion keinerlei …

exit. We show that the government should raise the entry tax when a merger reduces the total number of firms entering. …

The optimal competition policy when licensing is an alternative to a merger, which has the intention of transferring a … of the US Horizontal Merger Guidelines. In contrast, when only one instrument is feasible, be it fixed fees or royalties …

In current horizontal merger policy in the US and the EU an explicit efficiency defense is allowed. On both sides of …’ potential to harm consumers in the relevant market. Current merger policy is implicitly based on the assumption that rational … managers will only propose privately profitable mergers. In this thesis I will show that the empirical evidence on merger …

This paper addresses the potential for conflict between antitrust authorities in the arenaof merger control in the new … aspects of natural monopoly. We focus on three types ofsubstantive issues in merger control - market definition, assessment of …>ZUSAMMENFASSUNG - (Fusionskontrolle in der New Economy) <br> Diese Arbeit identifiziert Konfliktpotentiale zwischen Wettbewerbsbehörden in der …