Merger control in Europe : the gap in the ECMR and national merger legislations / Ioannis Kokkoris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kokkoris, Ioannis.

Series:

Routledge Research in Competition Law

Routledge Research in Competition Law ; v.v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consolidation and merger of corporations--Law and legislation--European Union countries.

Consolidation and merger of corporations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book addresses the phenomenon of mergers that may result in non-coordinated effects in oligopolistic markets. Such cases are sometimes referred to as ""non-collusive oligopolies"", or ""gap cases"" and there is a concern that they might not be covered by the substantive test that some Member States use for merger assessment. Ioannis Kokkoris examines the argument that the European Community Merger Regulation (Regulation 4064/89) did not capture gap cases and considers the extent to which the revised substantive test in Regulation 139/2004 deals with the problem of non-collusive oligopo

Contents:

European Community Merger Regulation : Council regulation (EC) no 4064/89

The new European Community Merger Regulation - Council Regulation (EC) no 139/2004

Merger assessment and the legal substantive test : quantitative methods in merger analysis

Mergers leading to non-coordinated effects in oligopolistic markets

Event studies in assessing the gap

Market structure assessment criteria of GAP.

Notes:

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-286) and index.

ISBN:

1-136-93628-9

1-136-93629-7

1-282-88623-1

9786612886232

0-203-84672-9

9780203846728

OCLC:

670411149