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Fight, fold or settle? : Modeling the reaction to FTC merger challenges

Coate, Malcolm B.; Kleit, Andrew N.; Bustamante, Rene - 1993

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Art of the Deal: The Merger Settlement Process at the Federal Trade Commission

Coate, Malcolm B.; Kleit, Andrew N. - In: Southern Economic Journal 70 (2004) 4, pp. 977-997

This paper models the modern merger review process in which an enforcement agency, here the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), interacts with the acquiring firm to determine the outcome of antitrust regulation. Our empirical implementation of a game theoretic analysis tests whether decisions are...

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Does it matter that the prosecutor is also the judge? The administrative complaint process at the Federal Trade Commission

Coate, Malcolm B.; Kleit, Andrew N. - In: Managerial and Decision Economics 19 (1998) 1, pp. 1-11

Firms seeking to merge face antitrust scrutiny from either the Department of Justice (DOJ) or the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Unlike the DOJ, the FTC litigates its cases in front of its own administrative law judges (ALJs), and then hears the appeal itself, rather than using federal district...

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