Reform of European merger policy

Review of International Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 246-261

  Lyons, Bruce R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; INDUSTRIAL POLICY; MERGER; POLICY REFORM;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 2542447296     PISSN: 09657576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9396.2004.00447.x     Document Type: Article

References (10)

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3. Burnside, A., "Comments on Kühn. "Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 2 (2002):365-78.
4. ECMR (1989) Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 of 21 December 1989 on the Control of Concentrations between Undertakings, Official Journal L 395, 30.12.1989, pp. 1-12.
5. ECMR, (2004) Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 of 20 January 2004 on the Control of Concentrations between Undertakings (the EC Merger Regulation) Official Journal 1, 24, 29.01.2004, pp. 1-22; available at http://europa.eu.int/comm/competition/mergers/legislation/regulation/.
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9. US Horizontal Merger Guidelines can be found at http://www.fte.gov/be/guidelin.htm (1992, with 1997 update).
10. Verouden, V., C. Bengtsson, and S. Albek, "The Draft Notice on Horizontal Mergers: a Further Step Towards Convergence," Antitrust Bulletin (forthcoming in winter issue 2003).