Ex post or ex ante? On the optimal timing of merger control
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- Andreea Cosnita-Langlais & Jean-Philippe Tropeano, 2013. "Ex post or ex ante? On the optimal timing of merger control," EconomiX Working Papers 2013-22, University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX.
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"Enforcement of Merger Control. Theoretical Insights for Its Procedural Design,"
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- Andreea Cosnita-Langlais, 2015. "Enforcement of Merger Control : Theoretical insights for its Procedural Design," EconomiX Working Papers 2015-31, University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX.
- Andreea Cosnita-Langlais, 2016. "Enforcement of merger control: theoretical insights for its procedural design," Post-Print hal-01386020, HAL.
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Keywords
merger control; competition policy; evidence production;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
- K21 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Antitrust Law
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
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