Mergers
Studies and reports
Reports prepared by outside parties represent the authors' views on the subject matter. These views have not been adopted or in any way approved by the Commission and should not be relied upon as a statement of either the Commission's or DG Competition's views
- Communication from the Commission: Report from the Commission to the Council on the operation of Regulation No 139/2004, 18 June 2009
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Commission staff working paper accompanying the report: thresholds and referral mechanisms (corrigendum with Annex 3 included) 
Press release (IP/09/963)
- Ex-post Review of Merger Control Decisions - Study carried out by LEAR
Final report 
Annexes 
- Merger Remedies Study
Competition Directorate-General, European Commission. October 2005.
- Press release: Commission analysis of past merger remedies provides guidance for future cases. IP/05/1327 - 21.10.2005
- The Impact of Vertical and Conglomerate Mergers on Competition
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Report for DG Competition, European Commission; report prepared by Jeffrey Church (University of Calgary, Canada). September 2004.
- Effects of mergers involving differentiated products

Technical Report for DG Competition, European Commission; report prepared by Roy J. Epstein (Boston College, USA) and Daniel L. Rubinfeld (University of California, Berkeley, USA). October 2004.
- The Economics of Tacit Collusion
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Report for DG Competition, European Commission, report prepared by Marc Ivaldi, Bruno Jullien, Patrick Rey, Paul Seabright, Jean Tirole (IDEI, Toulouse). March 2003
- The Economics of Unilateral Effects
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Report for DG Competition, European Commission, report prepared by Marc Ivaldi, Bruno Jullien, Patrick Rey, Paul Seabright, Jean Tirole (IDEI, Toulouse). November 2003.
- The competitive effects of efficiencies in European merger control

(Miguel de la Mano. Enterprise Papers No 11) 2002.
- The Efficiency-Enhancing Effects of Non-Horizontal Mergers
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Report by RBB Economics for DG Enterprise, European Commission. 2005.
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