a merger to create value, it will usually be necessary that one or both parties is below minimum efficient scale or has … insight into a merger's true motives and its likelihood of creating value …

the government's challenge to the merger of AT&T and Time Warner. It was the trial court's fundamental ruling at the close … deeply broken our merger law is. It was among the more remarkable demonstrations of anti-govenrment bias in living memory …

This article aims at studying the economic dimension of the bargaining process in merger control by using the latest … results from the literature. After recalling the classic typology of merger remedies, we look at what is at stake in the … negotiation between merging parties and the competition authority. The tradeoff between merger remedies, efficiency gains expected …

The accuracy and efficacy of merger control are important questions that have long posed challenges for policy … evaluation. The growing number of merger retrospectives provide an opportunity to conduct such an analysis since they measure the … outcomes of actual mergers. This paper compiles all available merger retrospectives that meet scholarly criteria, resulting in …

in current merger enforcement rules, particularly with respect to tech and pharma acquisitions involving nascent and … and enforcers have called for tougher rules, including the introduction of lower merger filing thresholds and substantive … number of false positives under existing merger rules and thresholds. While merger enforcement ought to be mindful of these …

the results in the existing merger literature on integrated markets). Although the sum of consumer surplus across the …