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...