The new 3rd edition of The EC Merger Regulation: Substantive Issues provides a comprehensive working guide to the practical issues of EC merger regulation. It:
* Provides a comprehensive working guide to the practical issues of EC merger regulation
* Covers in detail the new EC Merger Regulation and associated law and case-law
* Looks at the underlying objectives of the regulation and the legal systems that implement it
* Presents information and techniques needed to complete merger deals successfully
* Looks at all the important issues from all angles
* Considers the new non-horizontal guidelines
* Analyses the latest developments in case law including the Ryanair/Aer Lingus and Sony/BMG decisions
* Discusses how the Commission reaches its decisions
* Provides extensive comparative references to advance the analysis
Contents:
Tables of Legislation, Tables of Cases
* The economic justification for merger control
* The SIEC test and other legal and methodological issues
* Market definition
* Market shares and concentration levels
* The counterfactual
* Market operation
* Horizontal mergers: non-coordinated effects
* Coordinated effects
* Loss of potential competition and mergers in neighbouring markets
* The merged group's buyer power
* Vertical issues
* Conglomerate issues
* Coordination in joint ventures
* Competition from actual rivals
* Countervailing buyer power
* New entry
* The failing firm defence
* Efficiency gains
* Other evidence of the likely effects of the merger on consumers
* Remedies
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Verlagsort
ISBN-13
978-1-84703-869-2 (9781847038692)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
The economic justification for merger control. The SIEC test and other legal and methodological issues. Market definition. Market shares and concentration levels. The counterfactual. Market operation. Horizontal mergers: non-coordinated effects. Coordinated effects. Loss of potential competition and mergers in neighbouring markets. The merged group's buyer power. Vertical issues. Conglomerate issues. Coordination in joint ventures. Competition from actual rivals. Countervailing buyer power. New entry. The failing firm defence. Efficiency gains. Other evidence of the likely effects of the merger on consumers. Remedies.
