Following up on our initial comments at the Tunney Act proceeding of the proposed merger between Sprint and T …

We provide comments on the recent DOJ/FTC draft vertical merger guidelines …

This paper provides a critical analysis of some of the key features of merger policy as understood and practiced in … move of merger policy towards the examination of unilateral effects. The critical appraisal of this process is based on the … key anticompetitive factor arising from a proposed merger. The paper stresses that even if unilateral effects were to lead …

In the 14 years since this quote, the empirical study of merger remedies has seen little advancement despite frequent … first describes the use of remedies in U.S. merger policy, including a summary of the FTC's recent remedy study. It then … merger remedies. The article concludes by highlighting areas where economic research could further advance the study of …

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 …

market structure the Merger Guidelines method (1982) also fails, leading to overestimation of the size of the relevant market …. Given these similarities the Merger Guidelines Fallacy and the Cellophane Fallacy are generally taken to be identical. In … origins of the two fallacies and provides a correction for the Merger Guidelines approach …

proposed Staples/Office Depot merger. It describes the competing presentations of the FTC and the merging firms during the …

be considered by competition authorities in considering whether to allow a merger. Unlike reductions in costs that merged … demonstrated. Of course, competition authorities should seek evidence that mergers will facilitate new and improved products and … weigh these benefits against increased prices and other costs the merger may create. A review of European Union merger cases …

be considered by competition authorities in considering whether to allow a merger. Unlike reductions in costs that merged … demonstrated. Of course, competition authorities should seek evidence that mergers will facilitate new and improved products and … weigh these benefits against increased prices and other costs the merger may create. A review of European Union merger cases …

why the merger would have been anticompetitive. We analyze how the merger would have led to adverse unilateral …, coordinated and exclusionary effects. AT&T and T-Mobile contended that their proposed merger would not adversely affect … replace any competition that was lost as a result of the merger, and because the efficiencies from the merger would be so …