why the merger would have been anticompetitive. We analyze how the merger would have led to adverse unilateral …, coordinated and exclusionary effects. AT&T and T-Mobile contended that their proposed merger would not adversely affect … replace any competition that was lost as a result of the merger, and because the efficiencies from the merger would be so …

innovation in the years preceding a merger, and reduce their rate of sequential innovation in the years following a merger. This … policy, as the FTC and DOJ frequently cite innovation as a reason for concern about a merger …

The Merger Guidelines released in March 2008 by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) provide a …

We provide comments on the recent DOJ/FTC draft vertical merger guidelines …

Following up on our initial comments at the Tunney Act proceeding of the proposed merger between Sprint and T …

courts' opinions in these two hospital merger cases and discuss the ways in which the district courts erred in their analyses … and how the appeals courts' decisions will affect future merger cases …

I quantify efficiencies that were created following a horizontal merger between Coca-Cola and Glaceau, the manufacturer … fixed cost efficiencies affected equilibrium market outcomes. I find that, compared to a "no merger" baseline in year 2009 …, the merger reduced the prices of Glaceau products by 3.5%-5.2% and increased product varieties by 18.8%-35.8%, advertising …

This paper contributes to a sparse literature on merger remedies amid renewed interest in assessing remedy … effectiveness by global antitrust policy agencies. Despite frequent use in practice, merger remedies receive little attention in the … economics literature. We address this deficiency by analyzing the 2013 merger of two casino operators, Pinnacle and Ameristar …

This research modifies the well-known three-stage merger simulation procedure of Nevo (2000) by replacing demand … analysis in the first stage with survey-generated diversion ratios and own-price elasticities. We also provide a post-merger … diversion ratio, and UPP. The formula thus is informative and convenient for competition enforcement when dealing with merger …

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 …