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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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