Turkish Banking Act exempts certain bank mergers from the Turkish merger control regime. With this legislation, a large number of the potential bank merger are exempted from obtaining the permission from the Turkish Competition Authority. Turkish Competition Authority and international...

Antitrust economists routinely utilize simulation models to predict the price effect of a transaction or agreement that involves collective pricing and/or collective profit maximization, such as a merger. Proportionality-Calibrated Almost Ideal Demand System (PCAIDS) model is a variant of the...

In this paper, we aim to investigate whether different segments of beer products can constitute a separate relevant product market within the framework of competition law. This question gained importance when the merger between Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller became subject to a Phase II...