enforcement under existing merger law. While a common core of basic economic assumptions supports increased enforcement as a … general matter, the choice among several available economic welfare standards has significant implications for merger … cases where a merger is likely to result in significant efficiencies that will decrease prices for customers, customer …

the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in connection with their Request for Information on Merger Enforcement (“Merger RFI … important goal of both antitrust law and merger policy.Based on the existing evidence, an empirically supported basis for the … use of differential analyses for labor or for presumptions in labor markets does not clearly exist at this time. Merger …

mergers. We then simulate a representative set of U.S. mergers in order to evaluate merger review thresholds. Our main … lenient 2010 merger guidelines and unharmed, on average, under enforcement of the more stringent 1982 merger guidelines. We …

The DOJ and FTC clarify the role of labor market power ("monopsony") in the 2023 draft merger guidelines. The draft … that a stricter threshold may be warranted in labor markets. The post-merger Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) that defines … monopsony power in the U.S. may warrant an even lower threshold. For example, merger simulations indicate that workers would …

Commission (FTC)'s broader merger review and approval process. This Essay argues for a novel intervention in the labor antitrust … effects into the antitrust agencies' merger review as a doctrinal and methodological matter. Second, it provides the first … merger review, including but not limited to the antitrust agencies' concurrent jurisdiction with the Federal Communications …

In January 2022, the Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission issued a Request for Information on Merger …