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Merger Remedies in a Small Market Economy: Empirical Evidence from the Baltic States

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics
Volume 6 (2013): Issue 1 (June 2013)
By: Alexandr Svetlicinii and  Külliki Lugenberg  
Open Access
|Sep 2013

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjlp-2013-0001 | Journal eISSN: 2029-0454
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Language: English
Page range: 1 - 26
Published on: Sep 5, 2013
Published by: Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy and the Faculty of Law of Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)
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Keywords:
EU competition law,
merger control,
merger remedies,
national competition authority,
Estonia,
Latvia,
Lithuania
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