have taken the initiative to propose and undertake reforms to regulate mergers of companies that operate in the online … paper, the author puts forth the need for regulating mergers in the digital markets, the reforms undertaken by different … holistically. The paper also argues that the regulators are equipped to reduce any potential ongoing harm (to an extent) by mergers …

promises and downsides of merger simulations as a tool of computational antitrust. In doing this, we first provide an overview … of the working mechanisms of the merger simulation tool and then evaluate its implementation in competition policy … to reap considerable prospects of merger simulations as a computational antitrust tool …

In recent times, there has been considerable development in the assessment of non-horizontal merger in the European … Commission) to weed out mergers with anti-competitive potentialities. This development can be credited substantially to courts …-horizontal mergers. This research paper investigates the importance of the GE/Honeywell, particularly with respect to the decision of the …

for a significant proportion of overall UK merger enforcement. This mergers intelligence function is crucial to the …

consumer privacy as a factor in their merger reviews and to challenge mergers of firms with large stores of personal data that … cannot be factored into the merger review process in a way that is consistent with longstanding precedent. There are also … where firms differentiate themselves through their approaches to privacy, a merger could reduce the incentive of a merged …

The Communications Act of 1934 created a dual review process in which mergers in the communications industry are … 2011 Comcast-NBC Universal merger provides a useful case study to examine whether such concerns are justified. A review of … merger and which were more properly addressed through general rulemaking. Moreover, the use of voluntary commitments also …

Revisions incorporated into the Horizontal Merger Guidelines in 2010 claim that the Department of Justice and the … Federal Trade Commission consider anticompetitive effects to product “variety” when evaluating mergers. The Guidelines do not …

Merger regulation is critical for the protection of a competitive market structure that will ultimately benefit he … rules and institutions. The papers analyses the effectiveness of the Zimbabwean merger regulating statute, the Competition … Act focusing on the statutory definition of corporate mergers. Applying the decision in the Caledonia Holdings …

methodology for identifying relevant antitrust markets in merger cases, and discuss two approaches to implementing the test. We … candidate market, and discuss the “hypothetical cartel test” introduced in the 2010 U.S. Merger Guidelines …

account in merger policy. Although we can show in our study that in one third of all challenged mergers also innovation …In this empirical study all mergers that have been challenged by the U.S. antitrust agencies FTC and DOJ between 1995 … mergers. Theoretical background is the still open question how negative effects of mergers on innovation should be taken into …