Merger Control and Environmental Policy

This chapter reviews the goals of two policies: merger control and environmental policies. The chapter then develops an integrated framework where these two policies interact and can affect each other, where merger control policymakers consider environmental aspects while environmental policymakers consider merger incentives. So far, the literature presents environmental policy and merger control policies as two independent topics. We argue these are inextricably linked for policy-making and that environmental policy and merger policy could be designed in a synergistic way.