Recently there has been a notable increase in interest in antitrust law in much of the world. This chapter discusses … antitrust policy toward horizontal mergers, the area of antitrust that has seen some of the most dramatic improvements in both …

and omissions are at least as important: analysis of efficiencies, which are thought to justify a permissive approach …

In the last years, a growing number of scholars is in favour of a wider use of quantitative tools in the antitrust … behaviours in order to understand the compliance with the antitrust rules. A more important reason may be found in the screening … function of the index, since it should be aimed at reducing the antitrust Agencies workload. In this paper, the application of …