NERA Associate Director Dr. Nicola Tosini and former Managing Director Prof. Dr. Frank Maier-Rigaud provide economic insights from BASF’s acquisition of Solvay’s polyamide business in their article “Mergers Between Backward Integrated Firms: Insights from BASF/Solvay’s Polyamide Business,” published in the current issue of Oxford’s Journal of European Competition Law & Practice.  In their article, the authors illustrate complex issues that arise in the evaluation of mergers between differentially backward-integrated firms, including familiar and novel effects.

To read the article, please visit the Oxford Academic website. Learn more about NERA’s involvement in the BASF/Solvay Merger here.