Tag: Merger Control
The Framework of the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines
Paul Denis, Oct 28, 2010
The two principal reasons that the 1992 Horizontal Merger Guidelines achieved longevity, judicial acceptance, and international imitation were: (1) for...
Thy Lamp Unto the World: International Convergence After the 2010 Guidelines
Oct 28, 2010
Those of us who practice competition law globally and who engage in international technical assistance are regularly struck by the wide variation...
Continuity and Change in the 2010 Merger Guidelines
Malcolm Coate, Joseph Simons, Oct 28, 2010
For almost 30 years, the U.S. antitrust enforcement agencies have described a structured, step-by-step analytical methodology in their...
Antitrust Enforcement in Argentina Under Stricter Judicial Scrutiny
Julian Pena, Jul 14, 2010
In the past couple of years, the courts have become increasingly stricter when reviewing decisions taken by the antitrust authorities...
Behavioral Economics and Merger Analysis
Alison Oldale, Apr 01, 2010
The papers in this volume by Eliana Garcés, and Matthew Bennett, John Fingleton, Amelia Fletcher, Liz Hurley & David Ruck...
Competition Policy and the Economic Crisis
Philip Lowe, Nov 01, 2009
The Commission stands firm on the importance of maintaining the competition rules and a policy of robust competition policy enforcement....
EC Competition Law vs. Greek Competition Law: Conscious Parallelism or Unconscious...
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Lia Vitzilaiou, George Zohios, Jun 13, 2009
On April 30, 2009, one day before...
A Current Highlight on Merger Remedies in Turkish Competition Law: Vatan...
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Demet Kaya, Jun 13, 2009
The Act on the Protection of Competition (henceforth Turkish...
Merger Action Group v. Secretary of State for BERR: External Control...
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Barry Rodger, May 18, 2009
The recent merger between Lloyds/TSB and HBOS has again...
Assessing the Quality of Competition Policy: The Case of Horizontal Merger...
William Kovacic, Apr 30, 2009
This article suggests how a jurisdiction might best go about evaluating the quality of its competition policy system. It urges...