principles informing merger policy such as the presumed profitability of mergers for the merging firms and the merger … concentration indices for screening out unproblematic from potentially harmful mergers. The incremental effect of a merger taking …Common ownership fundamentally upsets the well-settled merger enforcement ecosystem. Not only it challenges basic …

the common ownership debate to merger control and explores: i) the aims and scope of legal control as regards partial … jurisdictional and remedial design of merger law frameworks. Competition policy should stay current by explicitly recognizing these …

We study a voluntary pre-merger notification game under asymmetric information and characterize perfect Bayesian … equilibria. In the separating equilibrium, only the mergers with low private benefits and low social welfare are notified, and … subsequently settled into negotiated outcomes. All other types of mergers are not notified and investigated ex post with a positive …

We compare the prevailing system of compulsory pre-merger notification with the Australian system of voluntary pre-merger … strategies in which the regulator investigates un-notified mergers with probability less than one and the parties choose …. Some of the theoretical predictions are supported by exploratory empirical tests using merger data from Australia. Overall …

firms: 3-4 years after merger finalisation, 20 percent fewer procurement auctions receive more than one bid after mergers …Size thresholds exist for overall, national merger review and for assignment to national versus supranational …-reducing mergers before they come under any regulatory oversight. The results, though, point out another type of strategic behaviour by …

The compulsory notifications for mergers transactions under the framework of antitrust law aims to remedy anti …-competitive harm by blocking or conditionally approving mergers ex ante in conjunction with the deterrence effects. However, such a … implement such a mechanism to see if there is an efficient alternative. The first decade of the enforcement of China' merger …

In this short article, I discuss the question of insignificant local nexus under Indian merger control law. The [Indian …