Mergers and market shares after cartel breakdown

The cartels involved a total of 593 firms at the dates of breakdown. Data was collected on all mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures between former cartelists from the same cartel. The sources were: (i) companies websites, in particular annual reports, press releases, investor information, company timelines/histories, etc.; (ii) merger decisions documents published by the European Commission; (iii) National Competition Authorities (CA); and (iv) business and financial websites (e.g. Bloomberg, etc.).<p>The ESRC Centre for Competition Policy (CCP) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) undertakes interdisciplinary research into competition policy and regulation that has real-world policy relevance without compromising academic rigour.

It prides itself on the interdisciplinary nature of the research and the members are drawn from a range of disciplines, including economics, law, business and political science.

The Centre was established in September 2004, building on the pre-existing Centre for Competition and Regulation (CCR), with a grant from the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council). It currently boasts a total of 26 faculty members (including the Director and a Political Science Mentor), 4 full- and part-time researchers and 23 PhD students.
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