'Managers are increasingly uncertain over the source (home-nation or foreign-nation) of antitrust holdup for domestic mergers with significant international implications. I propose a conceptual framework that predicts the source of antitrust holdup for domestic mergers. Under idealized institutional assumptions, I find an industry's global competitiveness to be the primary driver behind holdup source: a contention supported by empirical tests based on the merger policies of 27 antitrust jurisdictions over the 1992-2000 period. I also relax the idealized institutional conditions to yield more precise propositions tailored to the cross-national environment for antitrust policy. Finally, I generate prescriptive propositions that yield implicat...
This paper explains the different trajectories of German and American competition policy and its per...
The uncovering of a great number of cartels in the industrialised world has left an unfortunate, yet...
This dissertation studies the enforcement change of antitrust policy after the global financial cris...
"Managers are increasingly uncertain over the source (home-nation or foreign-nation) of antitrust ho...
'The literature on antitrust in an open-economy setting is inconclusive with respect to the role pla...
"The literature on antitrust in an open-economy setting is inconclusive with respect to the role pla...
'This paper addresses the potential for conflict between antitrust authorities in the arena of merge...
This paper surveys the literature on merger policy in open economies. We first adopt a reduced-form ...
Note:Mergers between enterprises in one country are covered by the antitrust regulations of the coun...
'This paper considers merger control in a common agency framework where firms and their competitors ...
'The objective of this paper is to investigate the determinants of EU merger control decisions. We c...
This paper looks at the political economy of merger policy under autarky and in international market...
We develop a model in which two firms that have proposed to merge are privately informed about merge...
"Antitrust policy involves not just the regulation of anti-competitive behavior, but also an importa...
European free-market countries recently have begun to enact more laws regulating mergers and joint-v...
This paper explains the different trajectories of German and American competition policy and its per...
The uncovering of a great number of cartels in the industrialised world has left an unfortunate, yet...
This dissertation studies the enforcement change of antitrust policy after the global financial cris...
"Managers are increasingly uncertain over the source (home-nation or foreign-nation) of antitrust ho...
'The literature on antitrust in an open-economy setting is inconclusive with respect to the role pla...
"The literature on antitrust in an open-economy setting is inconclusive with respect to the role pla...
'This paper addresses the potential for conflict between antitrust authorities in the arena of merge...
This paper surveys the literature on merger policy in open economies. We first adopt a reduced-form ...
Note:Mergers between enterprises in one country are covered by the antitrust regulations of the coun...
'This paper considers merger control in a common agency framework where firms and their competitors ...
'The objective of this paper is to investigate the determinants of EU merger control decisions. We c...
This paper looks at the political economy of merger policy under autarky and in international market...
We develop a model in which two firms that have proposed to merge are privately informed about merge...
"Antitrust policy involves not just the regulation of anti-competitive behavior, but also an importa...
European free-market countries recently have begun to enact more laws regulating mergers and joint-v...
This paper explains the different trajectories of German and American competition policy and its per...
The uncovering of a great number of cartels in the industrialised world has left an unfortunate, yet...
This dissertation studies the enforcement change of antitrust policy after the global financial cris...