merging and rival firms' stocks to quantify the profitability effects of mergers and merger control decisions. We back up our … assess merger control's effectiveness. By using data gathered from several sources and employing different evaluation … techniques, we analyze the economic effects of the European Commission's (EC) merger control decisions and distinguish between …

the period 1990-2002 to assess the effectiveness of European merger control. The basic idea is to relate announcement and … decision abnormal returns. Under a set of four maintained assumptions, merger control might be interpreted to be effective if … rents accruing due to the increased market power observed around the merger announcement are reversed by the antitrust …

Mergers that substantially lessen competition are challenged by antitrust authorities. Instead of blocking … mergers that were under the European Commission's scrutiny from 1990 to 2002. We use an event study methodology to identify … the potential anticompetitive effects of mergers as well as the remedial provisions on these transactions. Stock market …

quantify the profitability effects of mergers and merger control decisions. The basic idea is to relate announcement and … concentrations during the period 1990-2002 to assess the effectiveness of European merger control. We analyze the economic effects of … the European Commission's merger control decisions and distinguish between prohibitions, clearances with commitments …

the period 1990-2002 to assess the effectiveness of European merger control. The basic idea is to relate announcement and … decision abnormal returns. Under a set of four maintained assumptions, merger control might be interpreted to be effective if … rents accruing due to the increased market power observed around the merger announcement are reversed by the antitrust …

Mergers that substantially lessen competition are challenged by antitrust authorities. Instead of blocking … mergers that were under the European Commission's scrutiny from 1990 to 2002. We use an event study methodology to identify … the potential anticompetitive effects of mergers as well as the remedial provisions on these transactions. Stock market …

the period 1990-2002 to assess the effectiveness of European merger control. The basic idea is to relate announcement and … decision abnormal returns. Under a set of four maintained assumptions, merger control might be interpreted to be effective if … rents accruing due to the increased market power observed around the merger announcement are reversed by the antitrust …

tools; and 4) deterrence of anti-competitive mergers. To infer the economic impact of the merger policy reform, we compare …Based on a database of 326 merger cases scrutinized by the European Commission between 1990 and 2007, we evaluate the … economic impact of the change in European merger legislation in 2004. We first propose a general framework to assess merger …