@techreport{Budzinski2012Impact,
abstract = {This paper provides a comparative analysis of methods for the empirical ex post evaluation of merger control decisions. It develops a competition-policy oriented framework of assessment criteria for the leading evaluation methods and applies them to structural modeling and simulation, differences-in-differences methods, event studies as well as survey-based methods. It concludes that a method-mix is recommendable, however, under the exclusion of event studies that fail to safeguard a minimum level of reliability of their results. Furthermore, the paper warns against overly optimistic expectations about the effects of systematic impact evaluations of merger decisions.},
address = {Ilmenau},
author = {Oliver Budzinski},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {C18; C54; L41; L40; K21; 330; empirical methods of industrial organization; merger control; competition; policy; antitrust decisions; comparative analysis},
language = {eng},
number = {75},
publisher = {Techn. Univ., Inst. f\"{u}r Volkswirtschaftslehre},
title = {Impact evaluation of merger control decisions},
type = {Ilmenau Economics Discussion Paper, Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/67109},
year = {2012}
}
