Tag: Merger Analysis

By: Alessandro S. Kadner-Graziano (ProMarket) In theory, mergers of complements can benefit firms and consumers through the Cournot effect. The theoretical model on competition which 19th century French mathematician...

By Michael A. Carrier & Gwendolyn J.Lindsay Cooley, Rutgers Law School & Wisconsin Department of Justice Consider a merger of two firms in the...

Antitrust practitioners are mis-applying simple vertical merger screening techniques (e.g. vertical foreclosure arithmetic, price pressure analysis) to reach flawed and internally inconsistent conclusions about...

The antitrust laws were not passed as an academic exercise. They were passed to break up the great Trusts, and to preserve competition. These...

By Malcolm B. Coate & Shawn W. Ulrick (U.S. Federal Trade Commission), John M. Yun (George Mason University) Critical loss analysis is an empirical tool...

By John M. Taladay & Jeffrey S. Oliver1   Many recent articles have posited that dominant companies are squelching competition by buying up nascent companies before...

Following AT&T/Time Warner and the recent adoption of U.S. Vertical Merger Guidelines, vertical merger policy has again become a subject of intense debate. Some...

By Dr. Tilman Kuhn, & Prof. Dr. Stefan Thomas (White & Case LLP & Eberhard Karls University)1   Introduction In its first ever judgment dealing specifically with...

November 2018 Spotlight on the Federal Trade Commission’s Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection By Tianran “Tinny” Song (Labaton Sucharow)1 Introduction The Federal Trade Commission’s Hearings on Competition...

Posted by EconPapers An Aggregative Games Approach to Merger Analysis in Multiproduct-Firm Oligopoly By Volker Nocke and Nicolas Schutz Using an aggregative games approach, we analyze horizontal...