The interface and coordination of securities regulation of tender offers, merger review proceedings set up by … bureaucratic procedures on mergers and acquisitions - which are inspired in different objectives and with disparate aims - that may … terms. In comparison with the pre-existing legal rules, as this paper analyzes in detail, the new regulation of merger …

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 …

Aufgabe der Fusionskontrolle ist es, die Interessen der Konsumenten großen Unternehmen gegenüber zu schützen. Um dies … besser zu ermöglichen, wurde die Europäische Fusionskontrolle 2004 einer umfassenden Reform unterzogen. Das Ziel war, den …The role of merger control is to protect the interests of consumers over those of major corporations. To improve this …

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 …

. However, prohibiting mergers, which sends a clear signal to the market, happens all too rarely. Aufgabe der Fusionskontrolle …The role of merger control is to protect the interests of consumers over those of major corporations. To improve this … protection, European merger control underwent comprehensive reforms in 2004. The aim was to increase the importance of economic …