This article surveys recent empirical evidence on efficiencies and competitive harm that are
associated with vertical mergers. It discusses both ex post or retrospective empirical studies …

We present a model of vertical contracts between manufacturers and retailers with nonlinear
pricing strategies. Using home‐scan data on bottled water produced by manufacturers and …

We analyze a large merger in the Swedish market for analgesics (painkillers). The merging
firms raised prices by 40 percent, and some outsiders raised prices by more than 10 percent …

The newspaper industry is a two‐sided market: the readers market and the advertising
market are closely linked by inter‐market network externalities. We estimate market power in …

We quantify the competitive effects of liberalizing the selective and exclusive distribution
system in the European car market, based on a model of oligopoly pricing with differentiated …

Advances in competition economics as well as in computational and empirical methods
have offered the scope for the employment of merger simulation models (MSMs) in merger …

This paper aims to assess the influence that economic analysis has had on competition
policy in the European Union over the last twenty years. Economists are increasingly used in …

A multisided platform (MSP) serves as an intermediary for two or more groups of customers
who are linked by indirect network effects. Recent research has found that MSPs are …

Merger control authorities may approve a merger based on an “efficiency defense.” An
important aspect in clearing mergers is that the efficiencies need to be merger-specific. Joint …

This chapter first reviews the economic theory underlying the unilateral competitive effects of
mergers, focusing on the Cournot model, commonly applied to homogeneous products; the …