EU Merger Control is currently undergoing its most profound reform to date, central to which is the more economic … open questions. The new Merger Control Regulation, which entered into force on May 1, 2004, brought inter alia changes in … effective competition (SIEC). The new criterion receives concrete form in the likewise new Horizontal Merger Guidelines. As a …

merger control activity across all the sectors, but banking and manufacturing, tend to be most active in terms of merger and … merger control and how the competition authorities respond to crisis by showing flexibility in merger control. The present … from both sides of the Atlantic. The article concludes by contemplating how merger control can be a constructive instrument …

particular in certain areas such as merger control. This paper makes an in-depth analysis, under a European perspective, of the … merger control chapter in the AML and of the Chinese authorities' enforcement practice …

suggest that a review of the Horizontal Merger Guidelines is much needed. More generally, the clash between the two courts …

The main goal of this paper is to provide an analysis of key regulatory changes in the European merger control and to … evaluate their real impact on the efficiency of merger regulation. Our main contribution is an empirical analysis of a unique … representative sample of 161 horizontal mergers covering the final regulatory assessments during the period from 1990 to 2008. We use …

We discuss the main Theories of Harm in EU merger control and their evolution since the 1990s. We present stylised … facts and trends using data extracted from EU merger decisions by natural language processing tools. EU merger policy has … evidence used. The introduction of the new Merger Regulation in 2004, which led to a change in the substantive test, also …

from an antitrust framework. Our analysis is prompted by the recent AT&T-MediaOne and AOL-Time Warner mergers, which raise … substantially decreasing consumer welfare. We conclude that the recent mergers of cable content and Internet access is the most …

driven by the average firm in a given sector. We show that merger intensity is positively related to structural markup growth …, with a 1% increase in the proportion of cumulative mergers over 2013-18 being related to around a 0.27% increase in … structural markup growth over the period from 2012 to 2019. We find that large vertical mergers are positively related to …