Materials comprising the hypothetical case study discussed at the 2014 ICN Merger Workshop hosted by the Competition Commission of India are available here.

The Canadian Competition Bureau has released a white paper which provides an analysis of the economics tools and techniques the Bureau uses when investigating retail mergers. The paper also discusses the techniques the Bureau uses to define the relevant product and geographic markets and addresses how the Bureau estimates the competitive effects that a particular […]

  Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about the use of economics in merger analysis and the related MWG work-product: the updated Chapter 4 of the ICN Investigative Techniques Handbook for Merger Review!   During the Teleseminar, you will be guided, by means of practical case studies from jurisdictions like Canada, Brazil and USA, on […]

   Want to know more about the MWG? Don’t miss the Welcoming Call on Nov 7, 2013.  The Merger Working Group (MWG) invites you to the teleseminar on Nov 7, 2013. The Competition Commission of India, together with the other co-chair of the MWG, will welcome you and guide you through the main MWG activities […]

  On this teleseminar representatives from agencies in India, Singapore and the United Kingdom will present their recently updated merger procedures and discuss issues related to the revision and implementation. DATE:         6 March 2013 TIME: 10am (London), 3.30pm (New Delhi), 6pm (Singapore), 9pm (Sydney). To check your time zone click here. […]

Dear ICN community, Today is the ICN’s 11th anniversary. I thought I would celebrate the occasion by providing a brief update on current ICN initiatives. This fall we are also celebrating the 10th anniversary of the ICN’s first recommended practices. We should be proud of ICN’s accomplishments in developing and adopting these international norms. A […]

  The EU’s national competition authorities and the European Commission have agreed a set of best practices on merger review. The best practices aim to foster cooperation and information sharing for mergers that do not qualify for review by the Commission but require clearance in several Member States.  

   On Tuesday, November 15, the ICN Merger Working Group will host a webinar featuring speakers from the EC and US who will discuss economic tools and techniques for  analyzing unilateral effects in differentiated product markets. The program will cover topics such as diversion ratios and upward pricing pressure, econometric studies, natural experiments, demand estimation […]

Merger notification form – Hungary   The Hungarian Competition Authority has initiated a public consultation on the draft of the Hungarian merger notification form and on the draft of the informal meetings related to the merger review.

  The Spanish CNC recently published Guidelines on short-form notification of mergers, describing which type of concentrations are eligible for short-form notification to the CNC.