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Die Fusion UBS-SBV aus der Sicht der Wettbewerbspolitik
UNGERN-STERNBERG, Thomas VON; NEVEN, Damien - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 1998
This paper examines the effects the planned merger between UBS and SBC would have on competition in the Swiss banking market. It is shown that the merger would lead to a dangerous level of concentration in certain submarkets such as the (economically important) market for credits to small and...
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Competition Law Enforcement in Malaysia: Some Recent Developments
LEE, Cassey - Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) - 2014
The enactment of the Competition Act 2010 represents a significant progress in the implementation of competition policy in Malaysia. The Malaysian Competition Commission has been fairly successful in its enforcement activities especially in price fixing cases involving trade associations. It has...
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Detection of Anticompetitive Horizontal Mergers
Hüschelrath, Kai - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
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 assess whether such a predicted price increase would be...
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Merger Policy with Alternative Mergers and Efficiency Gains
Razo, Carlos - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2004
This paper models the behaviour of a Competition Authority (CA) that takes into consideration alternative future mergers when deciding whether to approve a current merger notification. The result is a more stringent CA that demands higher merger-efficiencies than the ones needed to restore...
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Impact Evaluation of Merger Decisions
Budzinski, Oliver - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2011
This paper provides a comparative analysis of methods for the empirical ex post evaluation of merger control decisions. It develops a competition-policy oriented framework of assessment criteria for the leading evaluation methods and applies them to structural modeling and simulation,...
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Why define markets in competition cases?
Boshoff, Willem H. - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2013
Competition policy investigations usually commence with a definition of the relevant product and geographic market. The relevant market provides a first evaluation of competitive conditions and allows for the calculation of market shares, which aids in the assessment of firms’ market power....
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Critical loss analysis in market definition and merger control
Hüschelrath, Kai - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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...
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Optimal Structuring of Assessment Processes in Competition Law: A Survey of Theoretical Approaches
Kretschmer, Jürgen-Peter - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2011
In competition law, the problem of the optimal design of institutional and procedural rules concerns assessment processes of the pro- and anticompetitiveness of business behaviors. This is well recognized in the discussion about the relative merits of different assessment principles such as the...
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Cartels in the Kautiliya Arthasastra
Kumar, Vikas - In: Czech Economic Review 6 (2012) 1, pp. 59-79
This paper examines the legal-economic dimension of collusive manipulation of prices from the perspective of the Kautiliya Arthasastra, an ancient Indian treatise on law and statecraft, which is among the oldest sources of information about cartels. It identifies cartels in the treatise, shows...
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Auswirkungen des Beitritts Chinas zur WTO auf die Wettbewerbspolitik in China: Eine institutionenöknomische Betrachtung
Shi, Shiwei - Institute for European Integration, Europa-Kolleg - 2009
Dieses Paper beschäftigt sich mit dem Zusammenhang zwischen der Wettbewerbspolitik in China und dem WTO-Beitritt. Es … wurde festgestellt, dass der WTO-Beitritt zur rechtlichen Verankerung der Wettbewerbspolitik in China wesentlich beigetragen … Wirtschaftstransformation Chinas. Jedes Mal hat die weitere Öffnung der Wirtschaft die Transformation in China ein Stück vorangebracht. So wies …
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