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Waterstones acquisition of Foyles Bookstore is cleared

CRA supported the merging parties in seeking regulatory clearance, including through showing the dominance of Amazon in book selling, the impact of competition from other retailers on the parties through use of synthetic difference-in-difference analysis, and analysis of survey data.

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Simon Chisholm
Vice President

London
+44-20-7959-1473 schisholm@crai.com

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Dynamic capabilities and EC merger control: A difficult match?

Svend Albaek and Raphaël De Coninck explore the proposed use of “dynamic capabilities” analysis in European merger control as authorities increasingly focus on...
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The role of uncertainty in the future European horizontal merger guidelines: Lessons learned from Illumina/GRAIL

Under these circumstances, it is however not entirely clear how the future competitive landscape will look like, merger effects cannot be modelled with a high...

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Waterstones acquisition of Foyles Bookstore is cleared

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Dynamic capabilities and EC merger control: A difficult match?

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