Mergers - Articles, books, conference papers
and related research
By subject
Merger remedies
Eleanor Fox and Paul Sirkis, Antitrust Remedies - Selected Bibliography and Annotations, June 2005
Federal Trade Commission (US), 'A Study of the Commission's Divestiture Process', Prepared by the Staff of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission (William J Baer, Director, 1999)
Pre-merger notification
Choe Chongwoo and Chander Shekhar, Compulsory or Voluntary Pre-Merger Notification? Theory and Some Evidence,
February 2009 (unpublished)
Theory, efficiencies and economics
Caron Beaton-Wells, 'Mergers without markets? Unilateral effects analyisis in the United States and its prospects in Australia'
(2006) 34 ABLR 186 (available at SSRN)
Cerasi, Chizzolini and Ivaldi, 'The Impact of Mergers on the Degree of Competition in the Banking Industry' (Nota Di Lavoro, 95.2010)
Choe Chongwoo and Chander Shekhar, Compulsory or Voluntary Pre-Merger Notification? Theory and Some Evidence,
February 2009 (unpublished)
Daniel A Crane, 'Rethinking Merger Efficiencies' (Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series, Working Paper No 230, March 2011; Empirical Legal Studies Center, Working Paper No 11-001; (2011) 110 Michican Law Review)
Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro - Antitrust Evaluation of Horizontal Mergers: An Economic Alternative to Market Definition,
Working Paper, 9 December 2008
Herbert J Hovenkamp, Mergers and Market Dominance, Research Paper, January 2008
Langevoort, Donald C., "The Behavioral Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions" (2011) Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Paper 438
Satoshi Myojo and Hiroshi Ohashi, 'Assessing the Consequences of a Horizontal Merger and its Remedies in a Dynamic Environment',
Research Paper, CIRJE-F-609, January 2009
Daniel Sokol and James Fishkin, 'Antitrust Merger Efficiencies in the Shadow of the Law' (2011) 64 Vanderbilt Law Review 45 (at SSRN)
By Country
Australia
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European Union
Joaquin Almunia, 'The Past and the Future of Merger Control in the EU', Global Competition Review Conference, Brussels, 28 September 2010
United States
Caron Beaton-Wells, 'Mergers without markets? Unilateral effects analyisis in the United States and its prospects in Australia'
(2006) 34 ABLR 186 (available at SSRN)
Merger Guidelines
Leah Brannon and Kathleen Bradish,
'The Revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines: Can the Courts Be Persuaded?' (October 2010)
The Antitrust Source
Dennis W. Carlton and Mark Israel, 'Will the New Guidelines Clarify or Obscure Antitrust Policy?' (October 2010) The Antitrust Source
Susan Creighton, '2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines: The View from the Technology Industry' (October 2010) The Antitrust Source
Jay Ezrielev and Janusz A. Ordover, 'The 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines: A Static Compass in a Dynamic World?' (October 2010)
The Antitrust Source
Deborah L. Feinstein, 'The Revised Merger Guidelines: Did the Agencies Heed the Lessons of the Past?' (October 2010) The Antitrust Source
Deborah A. Garza, 'Market Definition, the New Horizontal Merger Guidelines, and the Long March Away from Structural Presumptions'
(October 2010) The Antitrust Source
Ilene Knable Gotts, 'Are the New Guidelines Representational Art or Pop Art in the End?' (October 2010) The Antitrust Source
John D. Harkrider, 'A Return to Von's Grocery?' (October 2010) The Antitrust Source
Jerry Hausman, '2010 Merger Guidelines: Empirical Analysis' (October 2010) The Antitrust Source
D. Bruce Hoffman and Daniel Francis, 'Including Exclusion in the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines' (October 2010) The Antitrust Source
Gary Zanfagna, 'Pandora's Box Opened: The New Horizontal Merger Guidelines' (October 2010) The Antitrust Source
International
Julie Clarke, The International Regulation of Transnational Mergers (PHD Thesis, Qld UT, 2010)
Julie Clarke, ‘Multi-jurisdictional merger review procedures: a better way’ (2006) 14 Trade Practices Law Journal 90-109
Comparative
Caron Beaton-Wells, 'Mergers without markets? Unilateral effects analyisis in the United States and its prospects in Australia'
(2006) 34 ABLR 186 (available at SSRN)
Choe Chongwoo and Chander Shekhar, Compulsory or Voluntary Pre-Merger Notification? Theory and Some Evidence,
February 2009 (unpublished)