In this comprehensive review of ex-post merger studies price effects of horizontal transactions are evaluated. By … combining and further analyzing the results of 52 retrospective studies on 82 mergers or merger-like transactions it can be … shown that the industry alone is no strong indication for the direction of price-related merger effects. However, the "size …

The 2011 revision to the Antitrust Division Policy Guide to Merger Remedies signals a shift in the Department of … Justice's approach to merger remedies. The earlier Remedies Guide, issued in 2004, emphasized structural remedies such as … recent merger cases – Ticketmaster-Live Nation, Comcast-NBCU, and Google-ITA. These three cases involve the use of multiple …

a tougher approach to merger enforcement than these alternatives. The plain words of Section 7, moreover, do not contain …

The Hart Scott Rodino program, coupled with the modern Merger Guidelines has structured merger enforcement for the last …

Economics and economists today play an active role in merger antitrust enforcement in the United States. Both of the … (FTC) – that are responsible for merger enforcement have sizable staffs of trained economists who routinely become involved … in merger analysis, merger litigation, and the development of merger enforcement policy. Private parties also now …