Is E.U. Merger Control Used for Protectionism? An Empirical Analysis

EU Merger Remedies: A Preliminary Empirical Assessment

Mergers that substantially lessen competition are challenged by antitrust authorities. Instead of blocking anticompetitive transitions straight away, authorities might choose to negotiate with the merging parties and allow the transactions to proceed with modifications that restore or preserve the competition in the involved markets. We study a sample of 167 mergers that were under the European...

Merger Control and Enterprise Competitiveness - Empirical Analysis and Policy Recommendations

development and implementation of an optimized control strategy for induction machine in an electric vehicle

in the area of automotive engineering there is a tendency to more electrification of power train. in this work control of an induction machine for the application of electric vehicle is investigated. through the changing operating point of the machine, adapting the rotor magnetization current seems to be useful to increase the machines efficiency. in the literature there are many approaches wh...

An Empirical Analysis of Merger-Related Blog Posts

Financial blogs are maintained by individuals (investors) in order to share information and opinions about financial topics and events, such as merger attempts. A merger attempt represents a situation of uncertainty for investors, because a lot of merger attempts are unsuccessful. Using a computer-assisted approach for content analysis of textual data, this study aims to explore if blog posts r...

The Ge-honeywell Merger in the Eu

The European Commission (EC) declared in July 2001 the merger between General Electric (GE) and Honeywell “incompatible with the common market”. The EC argument supposed that dominant position created or strengthened by horizontal overlaps and vertical and conglomerate integration, as a result of which effective competition would be significantly impeded, would end in the monopolization of some...