EU Merger Control Database: 1990-2014

We collected data on almost the complete population of the merger control decisions by the Directorate-General Competition’s (DG COMP) of the European Commission. We started the data collection with the first year of common European merger control, 1990, and included all years up to 2014. This amounts to 25 years of data on European merger control. With regard to the scope of the decisions, we collected data in all cases where a legal decision document exists. This includes all cases settled in the first phase of an investigation (Art. 6(1)(a), 6(1)(b), 6(1)(c) and 6(2)) and all cases decided in the second phase of an investigation (Art. 8(1), 8(2), and 8(3)). Note that this also includes all cases settled under a ‘simplified procedure’, provided that a legal decision document exists. Furthermore, we also intended to collect data on cases that were either referred back to member states by DG COMP or aborted by the merging parties. While we have collected some data on such cases, data on these cases is not always available. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that the final dataset covers all of these cases. The level of observation is not a particular merger case but a particular product/geographic market combination concerned by a merger. In total, the final dataset contains 5,196 DG COMP merger decisions. For each of this decision, we record a number of observations equal to the number of product/geographic markets identified in the specific transaction. Hence, the total dataset contains 31,451 observations.

本数据集采集了欧盟委员会竞争总司（Directorate-General Competition, DG COMP）几乎全部的并购管制决策样本。本次数据采集始于欧洲统一并购管制制度实施的首年——1990年，覆盖至2014年的全部年份，共计25年的欧盟并购管制相关数据。就决策覆盖范围而言，本数据集收录了所有存在正式法律决策文件的案例，包括调查第一阶段达成和解的所有案件（第6条第1款第(a)、(b)、(c)项及第2款），以及调查第二阶段作出裁决的所有案件（第8条第1款、第2款及第3款）。需注意，若存在正式法律决策文件，本数据集亦涵盖所有通过‘简易程序’达成和解的案件。此外，本数据集原计划收录欧盟委员会竞争总司移交回成员国的案件，以及并购方主动终止的案件。尽管我们已采集了部分此类案件的数据，但并非所有此类案件均能获取完整信息，因此无法确保最终数据集覆盖全部此类案件。本数据集的观测单元并非单个并购案件，而是并购案件所涉及的特定产品/地理市场组合。最终数据集共计包含5196份欧盟委员会竞争总司的并购管制决策。针对每份决策，我们记录的观测数量等于该特定交易中识别出的产品/地理市场数量。因此，本数据集的总观测量达31451条。

搜集汇总

背景与挑战

背景概述

该数据集收集了欧盟委员会竞争总司从1990年至2014年（共25年）的合并控制决策数据，涵盖了几乎所有存在法律决定文件的案件，包括第一阶段调查中的案件。数据集聚焦于经济学领域，涉及国际竞争法、合并控制和市场力量等主题，地理范围覆盖整个欧盟，由德国经济研究所于2021年发布并免费提供访问。