system in China, MOFCOM has conditionally cleared five mergers and made efforts to adopt rules on merger remedies. But China …With its Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) entering into force on August 1st, 2008, China introduced a fully-fledged merger …), the designated enforcement agency for merger control under the AML, has moved quickly to issue or draft implementing rules …

considerations discussed publicly by the antitrust agencies in the most recent mergers involving Internet-based products and services …. We structure our discussion around the fundamentals of merger analysis: market definition, competitive effects, entry … tools may not always be accurate predictors of agency enforcement decisions. The agencies have, on occaison, allowed mergers …

unchallenged string of Big Tech mergers, in which the world’s most powerful platforms have been acquiring promising young upstarts …The fate of conglomerate merger control appeared sealed when the European Commission, following the example its US … counterparts, included a strong presumption of legality in favour of conglomerate concentrations in its 2008 non-horizontal merger …

The 'two-thirds rule' stands as a caveat to the quantitative jurisdictional thresholds stipulated in the Merger … Regulations. It prevents the attribution of a 'Community dimension' to large business mergers where two-thirds of the parties …

The Merger Guidelines released in March 2008 by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) provide a … guide to the analytical approach the ACCC intends to adopt to assessing mergers for the purposes of s.50 of the Trade … identifies as potentially characterising mergers that reduce competition and harm consumer welfare. However, unlike the earlier …

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 …

We propose a general framework to assess merger policy effectiveness based on standard oligopoly theory and stock …) reversion of anti-competitive rents, and 4) deterrence. We apply this framework to 368 merger cases scrutinized by the European … Commission (EC) between 1990 and 2007. To evaluate the economic impact of the change in European merger legislation, we compare …