antitrust merger law currently works and how proposed legislative changes to antitrust may threaten the innovative VC … motivations of VCs. In so doing, it identifies the drivers of entrepreneurial innovation and explain why changes to merger law may … merger law may have negative effects on the entire entrepreneurial ecosystem and hinder US innovation …

Monday-morning assessments of antitrust merger trial outcomes are common. Critics of a court decision blocking a merger … Act’s prohibition of mergers whose effects “may be to substantially lessen competition, or tend to create a monopoly ….” Similarly, in the wake of an adjudicated merger that is allowed to proceed, critics may argue that the judiciary has become too …

Threat of punishment is considered a deterrent force, which ensures the sustainability of post-merger tacit … never be as perfect and simple in reality. Punishment plays an ambivalent role in post-merger coordination. More realistic … introduce in their 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines the theory of parallel accommodating conduct, which relies on individual …

A merger between two innovation competitors is often suspected to reduce the variety of heterogeneous entities which … to light whether firms can indeed be expected to create or maintain "diversity" post-merger. By focusing on the strategic …

Vertical mergers within a multi-echelon market result in equilibrium price changes, for wholesalers and retailers … sold in the market. In this paper, we consider the simultaneous price and variety effects of vertical mergers in a general … prices, a smaller or larger subset of all potential products is sold in the market. For an arbitrary merger of a supplier …

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has recently outlined proposed changes to Australia's merger … clearance law and process. This paper analyses the ACCC's proposals. We conclude that:1. Overall, the current merger clearance …, with clear pathways to the existing formal clearance processes if merger parties are uncooperative or attempt to game the …

This paper explores the factors that drive merger outcomes under China's Anti-Monopoly Law (AML). The paper overcomes … the problem of a small number of published merger decisions through a unique practitioner survey of antitrust lawyers … across multiple jurisdictions. This survey captures transactions contemplated, but never undertaken (deterred by the merger …

discussed in this article. A number of recent developments have significantly increased the risks associated with merger control …

In many jurisdictions across the world concern about foreign control of key national businesses appears to be mounting …. This article examines the policies displayed towards foreign direct investment and cross-border mergers in the EU, focusing … on the question of when public policy factors may impact on merger control within the EU and override competition law …