John Kwoka's Mergers, Merger Control, and Remedies is a meta-analysis of “retrospective” academic studies of consummated mergers and other horizontal arrangements. Based on this meta-analysis, Kwoka strongly criticizes federal enforcement policies, claiming that the agencies permit far too...

John Kwoka's recently published Mergers, Merger Control, and Remedies (2015) has received considerable attention from both antitrust practitioners and academics. The book features a meta-analysis of retrospective studies of consummated mergers, joint ventures, and other horizontal arrangements....

John Kwoka’s Mergers, Merger Control, and Remedies is a meta-analysis of “retrospective” academic studies of consummated mergers and other horizontal arrangements. Based on this meta-analysis, Kwoka strongly criticizes federal enforcement policies, claiming that the agencies permit far too...

Over two-thirds of FTC and DOJ merger challenges in fiscal 1998 and 1999 were resolved by "negotiated restructuring." Yet, while there is a lot of economics literature on the effects of mergers, I am not aware of much on merger fixes and divestitures. Similarly, while there is a lot of economics...