EMEA THE ANALYSIS
Economic analysis can clarify even the most intractable issues, to inform better decisions. Here we bring the best that economics has to offer without bias: setting out what is and isn’t known, and what needs to be considered when there is no consensus.

FROM THE EDITOR
In The Analysis, we consider the complex challenges that businesses and policymakers face, and demonstrate the light that economic analysis can shed on them – albeit partially – to inform better decisions and advance important debates.
In our fourth edition, our expert economists look at what data trends tell us about three complex debates: how companies’ profit margins have developed, and what that implies about merger control; whether the CMA and EC have held mergers in the tech sector to a higher standard than those in other sectors; and how the nature and impact of “multi-homing” can vary in different markets.