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‘Dynamic’ effects of mergers to be probed in new EU competition study

By Nicholas Hirst ( March 25, 2025, 11:27 GMT | Insight) -- How mergers can affect innovation and companies’ incentives to invest is the subject of a new study being commissioned by the EU’s competition watchdog. The European Commission put out a tender today for an examination of the “dynamic effects” that can flow from deals, encouraging applicants to pay special attention to sectors such as telecom, AI and biosciences. The study is part of a wider overhaul of the regulator's analytical framework for assessing mergers.How mergers can affect innovation and companies’ incentives to invest will be the subject of a new study being commissioned by the EU’s competition watchdog, with a likely focus on the telecom, AI and bioscience sectors....

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