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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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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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Meaning and limits of statistical significance

In a new article published in WuW – Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb (Competition Law & Economics), Johannes Dittrich, Sebastian Panthöfer and Lars Wiethaus delve...

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