Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Nuttall, Robin
2. Seabright, Paul

Description

1. xxii, 296 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

1. In 1989 the European Council of Ministers approved a Regulation establishing a new system of merger control for the European Community. This is the first independent review of the EC Merger Regulation and has wide implications for other issues such as regulatory capture and transparency. It uses the latest research methodology from economics to analyse the decisions taken by the Commission and also reports a detailed survey of firms which have submitted merger proposals and the law firms that have advised them. The full text of the Regulation is reprinted along with summary statistics for all of the cases investigated up to the end of March 1993. Economists, lawyers, and practitioners in the business and policy communities concerned with regulation and merger policy will need this book. " I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the political economy of merger control in the EC and in the US. The authors show clear mastery of complex legal issues that underpin merger control, and offer an up-to-date and highly readable guide through the policy thicket." -Janusz Ordover, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice.

Subject

1. Europäische Gemeinschaften
2. Communauté européenne
3. Consolidation and merger of corporations > Law and legislation > European Economic Community countries
4. UE/CE Droit
5. Politique de la concurrence
6. UE/CE Etats membres
7. Fusions d'entreprises
8. Droit de la concurrence
9. Consolidation and merger of corporations > Law and legislation
10. Fusionskontrolle
11. Kontrolle
12. Mergers and Acquisitions
13. Recht
14. Fusies
15. Europese Unie
16. Concurrence > Droit européen
17. Concurrence > Restrictions > Pays de l'Union européenne
18. Fusion d'entreprises > Pays de l'Union européenne
19. Domestic and EEC commerce, marketing and economics
20. Politics and political science
21. Law
22. European Economic Community countries

Contents

1. 1. Introduction -- 2. The analysis of mergers -- 3. The merger decisions of the European Commission -- 4. The reactions of firms -- 5. The bargaining game -- 6. Regulatory capture and the design of European merger policy -- 7. The procedures of merger control -- 8. Some options for change.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Summary in English and French.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-286) and indexes.