Search Results - subject:"Merger Control"

The DOJ and FTC RFI on Merger Enforcement : Commentary on Labor Market and Non-Price Effects

O'Brien, Daniel P. - 2022

In January 2022, the Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission issued a Request for Information on Merger Enforcement, seeking comment on how the agencies can modernize enforcement of antitrust laws regarding mergers. A theme in the RFI is whether current guidance underemphasizes or...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013290914

Presumptions in Merger Review : Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

Wright, Joshua D.; Kobayashi, Bruce H.; Lipsky, Abbott B.; … - 2022

The Global Antitrust Institute (“GAI”) respectfully submits this Comment to the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in connection with their Request for Information on Merger Enforcement (“Merger RFI”). This comment addresses the questions...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013290950

Comments of the International Center for Law and Economics on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

Manne, Geoffrey A.; Auer, Dirk; Albrecht, Brian C.; … - 2022

advances;2. An interpretation that existing merger-control tools, such as the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI), allow too many … involved in applying merger-control rules to monopsony markets, where output is the relevant consideration;4. An unwarranted … apply the notion of “attention markets” in a merger-control context, despite a lack of scholarship offering objective, let …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291322

Efficiencies in Merger Review : Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

Raskovich, Alexander; Kobayashi, Bruce H.; Lipsky, Abbott B. - 2022

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291866

Purpose, Harms, and Scope in Merger Review : Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

Lipsky, Abbott B.; Kobayashi, Bruce H.; Raskovich, Alexander - 2022

The Global Antitrust Institute (“GAI”) respectfully submits this Comment to the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in response to their Request for Information on Merger Enforcement. This Comment addresses the questions related to Purpose,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291869

Monopsony and Labor Markets in Merger Review : Global Antitrust Institute Comment of the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

Kobayashi, Bruce H.; Lipsky, Abbott B.; Raskovich, Alexander - 2022

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291870

Potential and Nascent Competition in Merger Review : Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

Yun, John M.; Kobayashi, Bruce H.; Lipsky, Abbott B.; … - 2022

This Comment focuses on Section 7: Potential and Nascent Competition of the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission's January 18, 2022, Request for Information on Merger Enforcement. Despite information and uncertainty problems with assessing potential and nascent competition, the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291871

Merger Guidelines Suggestions sent to the FTC and the Antitrust Division

Lande, Robert H.; Carstensen, Peter - 2022

On January 18, 2022 the FTC and the Antitrust Division requested suggestions for improving the federal Horizontal Merger Guidelines. We filed this comment, urging the enforcers to strengthen the articulations of the incipiency doctrine and the Philadelphia National Bank presumption that are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293033

Comment on the January 2022 DOJ and FTC RFI on Merger Enforcement : Issues Related to Digital Markets

Chiou, Lesley; Hipsman, Nathaniel; Prince, Jeffrey; … - 2022

The Federal Trade Commission and Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“the agencies”) have recently published a Request for Information (“RFI”) on Merger Enforcement in which they “seek public comment on how the agencies can modernize enforcement of the antitrust laws...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293615

Qualitative Market Definition

Nachbar, Thomas - 2022

Modern antitrust law has come under intense criticism in recent years, with a bipartisan chorus of complaints about the power of technology and internet platforms such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple. A fundamental issue in these debates is how to define the “market” for the purposes...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013294895