Chapter 10: Common ownership and merger control enforcement

• Main Author: Azar, José (auth)
• Other Authors: Tzanaki, Anna (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cheltenham, UK Edward Elgar Publishing 2022
• Subjects: LNC; Common ownership, horizontal shareholding, merger control, antitrust, competition, institutional investors
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Common ownership fundamentally upsets the well-settled merger enforcement ecosystem. Not only it challenges basic principles informing merger policy such as the presumed profitability of mergers for the merging firms and the merger-specificity of potential efficiencies but also it works against impl...