RBB economists have published widely on the economics of mergers and merger policy, as well as on specific merger cases considered by the European and domestic authorities.

Simon Bishop, Alice Through the Looking Glass: The Use and Misuse of Economics in EC Merger Control, Current Competition Law, Volume II, 2004

Simon Bishop, The Commission’s Draft Notice on Horizontal Mergers: An Opportunity for Change, Lawyers’ Europe (with Mette Alfter and Eric Mahr) 2004

Simon Bishop and Derek Ridyard, Prometheus Unbound: Increasing the Scope for Intervention in EC Merger Control, European Competition Law Review, Volume 24, Issue 8, August 2003

Derek Ridyard, The Role of Economics in European Merger Control in Nicholas Levy, "European Merger Control Law: A Guide to the Merger Regulation", Matthew Bender, 2003

Simon Baker, Simon Bishop and Derek Ridyard, Economists' Analysis: The European Union's New Horizontal Merger Guidelines, Antitrust, Volume 17, Number 3, Summer 2003 (with Philip Nelson)

Andrea Lofaro and Derek Ridyard, Switching Costs and Merger Assessment: Don't Move the Goalposts, European Competition Law Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, June 2003

Simon Bishop, The Economics of EC Competition Law: Concepts, Applications and Measurement, 2nd edition, Sweet & Maxwell, 2002 (with Mike Walker)

Simon Baker, Unilateral effects in retail chain mergers: an application to supermarkets, European Competition Law Review, Volume 23, Issue 4, April 2002 (with Andrea Coscelli and Theon van Dijk)

Andrea Lofaro and Derek Ridyard, Beyond Bork - New Theories of Economic Exclusion in Merger Cases, European Competition Law Review, Volume 23, Issue 3, March 2002

Simon Bishop and Andrea Lofaro, Disregarding history: the EC Commission's Pirelli/BICC Decision, European Competition Law Review, Volume 22, Issue 7, July 2001

Andrea Lofaro, Dominanza Collettiva e Fusioni alla Prova di San Tommaso, Mercato Concorrenza Regole, April 2001 (with Andrea Coscelli)

Andrea Lofaro, Deal-breaker? - Assessing the Risks to M&A from European Merger Control, published in Dealmaker magazine, February 2001

Simon Bishop, Calcio e televisione: un binomio complesso, Mercato Concorrenza Regole, December 2000 (with Andrea Coscelli and Theon van Dijk)

Andrea Lofaro and Derek Ridyard, The Economic Analysis of Joint Dominance Under the EC Merger Regulation, The European Business Organization Law Review 1: 539-560, 2000

Simon Baker, Collective Dominance and the Airtours/FirstChoice Decision (in Dutch), Markt & Mededinging, Volume 3, Issue 3, June 2000 (with Theon van Dijk)

Simon Baker and Andrea Lofaro, Buyer Power and the Enso/Stora Decision, European Competition Law Review, Volume 21, Issue 3, March 2000

Simon Baker, Assessing Mergers in Oligopolistic Markets, Office of Fair Trading Research Paper 19, November 1999 (with Ciara McSorley)

Simon Bishop, The Economics of EC Competition Law: Concepts, Applications and Measurement, Sweet & Maxwell, 1999 (with Mike Walker)

Simon Baker and Derek Ridyard, Portfolio Power: a Rum Deal?, European Competition Law Review, Volume 20, Issue 4, 1999

Simon Bishop, Power and Responsibility: the Commission's assessment of collective dominance, European Competition Law Review, 1998

Simon Bishop, When Two is Enough: Competition in Bidding Markets, European Competition Law Review Volume 17, 1996 (with Bill Bishop)

Derek Ridyard, Economic Analysis of Single Firm and Oligopolistic Dominance under the European Merger Regulation, European Competition Law Review, Volume 15, Issue 5, September 1994

Derek Ridyard and Simon Bishop, Market Definition in UK Competition Policy, published by the Office of Fair Trading as Research Paper No.1, Spring 1993 (with Michael Klass)