Essays about: "Failing Firm Defence"

Found 3 essays containing the words Failing Firm Defence.

1. 1. The Failing Firm Defence: Are the Failing Firm Defence Criteria Formal Conditions or a Tool to Help Assess Overall Effects of a Merger?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Frosti Haraldsson; [2019]
   Keywords : Failing Firm Defence; Merger Control; Competition Law; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The failing firm defence is an exception to the underlying philosophy of merger control. When the failing firm defence is applied successfully mergers that have anti-competitive effects are approved, due to the fact that the competitive structure would deteriorate in a similar fashion in the absence of the merger. READ MORE

3. 2. Welfare Effects of the Failing Firms Defence

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Erik Lyrvall; [2016]
   Keywords : Failing Firm Defence Antitrust; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The failing firm defence is a tool that an antitrust authority can use to approve a merger that usually would have been blocked if one of the merging firms is failing. The defence has during the last years been used a number of times on EU level as well as in Sweden. READ MORE

4. 3. Failing firm defence

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Agnieszka Zwirska; [2003]
   Keywords : European Affairs; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The failing firm defence is well-established under the US Horizontal Merger Guidelines and judicatory of the US Supreme Court. This defence is applicable to the mergers that create or strengthen the dominant position of the firms on the market and therefore do not violate the competition law. READ MORE