In this article, Raphaël De Coninck describes the economic and econometric analysis that the European Commission carried out in the cases of TomTom/TeleAtlas, Nokia/Navteq and Itema/BarcoVision.
Equilibrium analysis of vertical mergers
Vertical mergers are known to potentially create an incentive for the merged firm to raise the price of inputs it supplies to its rivals (raising rivals’ cost...