that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for 1,014 mergers affecting 12,325 antitrust markets scrutinized by the … concerns about the Commission's merger enforcement being too lax. …

that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for 1,014 mergers affecting 12,325 antitrust markets scrutinized by the … concerns about the Commission’s merger enforcement being too lax. …

the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in connection with their Request for Information on Merger Enforcement (“Merger RFI …”). The GAI welcomes the opportunity to provide input on the proposed changes to the Horizontal Merger Guidelines (“HMGs … Section 14 of the Merger RFI, in which the Agencies pose two questions that go to the heart of the treatment of efficiencies …

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 …

This paper introduces the Werden-Froeb Index (WFI) to assist in evaluating merger-specific efficiencies in horizontal … mergers. The index measures the weighted average reduction in marginal costs required to restore pre-merger equilibrium prices … and quantities after the (full or partial) merger is consummated. The WFI is well defined, objective and robust, and it …

outsiders. With PD, in most cases, the merger generates efficiency gains when spillovers and/or PD are sufficiently high. With …This article analyzes endogenous efficiency gains from mergers. It considers oligopolistic homogeneous good markets and … homogeneous good markets, all possible mergers generate efficiency gains, and that these are most significant when R&D spillovers …

, the merger generates efficiency gains when R&D spillovers and/or product differentiation are sufficiently high. Under … price competition with a merger to monopoly, the merger induces efficiency gains except when spillovers are very low. With …This paper analyzes endogenous efficiency gains from mergers. It considers oligopolistic homogeneous good markets and …

Common ownership fundamentally upsets the well-settled merger enforcement ecosystem. Not only it challenges basic … principles informing merger policy such as the presumed profitability of mergers for the merging firms and the merger …-specificity of potential efficiencies but also it works against implementing tools and presumptions in merger practice such as …

the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in connection with their Request for Information on Merger Enforcement (“Merger RFI …”). This comment addresses the questions contained in Section 5 of the RFI related to the use of presumptions in merger … enforcement. Our view is that an important objective of the agency’s horizontal merger enforcement guidelines is to ensure that …