Efficiencies Defences for Mergers within a Dominant Group

Antitrust enforcement in a number of countries allows an efficiencies defence for horizontal mergers, joint ventures, specialization agreements and other horizontal arrangements. These defences may be statutory, jurisprudential or administrative. They involve, in essence, a balancing of real per unit cost savings (improvements in technical efficiency) resulting from a merger or agreement against its anticompetitive effects.

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Year of publication:	2000-06
Authors:	Bian, Lin ; McFetridge, Donald G.
Institutions:	Carleton University, Department of Economics

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Series:	Carleton Economic Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Published: Carleton Economic Papers Number 00-09 19 pages
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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