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Max van Iersel

Max van Iersel is a PhD researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) and the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) at Tilburg University. His research examines how venture capital dynamics shape the way startup acquisitions affect innovation, and how EU merger control should respond.
Antitrust and Competition

Do the Merger Guidelines Need a Glossary?

Anouk van der Veer
The European Union’s draft Merger Guidelines assign multiple meanings to several key terms, making competition enforcement less predictable. Anouk van der Veer, Max van Iersel, and Giorgio Monti explore the Guideline’s inconsistent use of three of these terms: competitiveness, dynamic, and capabilities.

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