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A Short Overview of a Methodology for the Ex-Post Review of Merger Control Decisions |
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| Authors: | Paolo Buccirossi Lorenzo Ciari Tomaso Duso Sven-Olof Fridolfsson Giancarlo Spagnolo Cristiana Vitale |
| Affiliation: | (1) LEAR – Laboratorio di Economia, Antitrust e Regolamentazione, Via del Banco di S. Spirito 42, 00184 Rome, Italy;(2) Humboldt University Berlin and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin, Germany;(3) Research Institute of Industrial Economics – IFN, Grevgatan 34, 102 15 Stockholm, Sweden;(4) Department of Economics and Institutions, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Building B, 3rd Floor, Room no. 33, Via Columbia 2, 00133 Rome, Italy |
| Abstract: | Summary This paper is based on a study commissioned by the European Commission, in which we proposed a detailed methodological approach for the ex-post assessment of decisions reached by the European Commission in the field of merger control. The methodology focuses on how to establish whether the market structure arising from the decision is apt to protect consumer welfare better than the market structures that could have arisen from alternative decisions. It provides suggestions on how assess the impact of the decision relative to the possible counterfactuals and discusses the empirical techniques that can be used to perform this evaluation. |
| Keywords: | mergers ex-post evaluation methodology |
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