Antitrust and Merger Policy
Mergers | Federal Trade Commission
Section 7 of the Clayton Act prohibits mergers and acquisitions when the effect “may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly ...
2023 Merger Guidelines - Antitrust Division - Department of Justice
The 2023 Merger Guidelines are a non-binding statement that provides transparency on aspects of the deliberations the Agencies undertake in ...
The Antitrust Laws - Department of Justice
The Sherman Antitrust Act ... This law prohibits conspiracies that unreasonably restrain trade. Under the Sherman Act, agreements among ...
Antitrust and Merger Policy: A Review and Critique
Antitrust and Merger Policy: A Review and Critique by Lawrence J. White. Published in volume 1, issue 2, pages 13-22 of Journal of Economic Perspectives, ...
Protecting Competition Through Updated Merger Guidelines | CEA
The new draft Guidelines provide clarity around how the agencies are considering the competitive effect of mergers.
Merger Review | Federal Trade Commission
Among the key provisions in U.S. antitrust law is one designed to prevent anticompetitive mergers or acquisitions. ... After the companies report a proposed deal, ...
U.S. Antitrust Merger Enforcement: What to Expect in 2024
The Biden administration moved swiftly to set the tone for antitrust and competition policy during this term. In July 2021, President Biden ...
U.S. Antitrust Agencies Finalize Changes to the U.S. Merger ...
The new Merger Guidelines emphasize market shares over economics, signaling a shift back to 1960s policies. Key Differences in the 2023 Merger ...
A Second Trump Presidency: How Will It Impact Antitrust Merger ...
Merger Guidelines. The antitrust agencies' merger guidelines, which describe the substantive standards they use to evaluate a proposed ...
Decoding the 2023 FTC and DOJ Merger Guidelines
[3] The new guidelines declare that the federal antitrust agencies will presume a merger is illegal if it will result in a Herfindahl-Hirschman ...
Mergers and Preventive Antitrust Policy
Section 7 of the Clayton Act,2 the anti- merger section, is the only important instance of preventive antitrust legislation.' I shall discuss this section after ...
DOJ and FTC Release Final 2023 Merger Guidelines Formalizing ...
On December 18, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) released the final 2023 ...
Chapter 36 Antitrust Policy toward Horizontal Mergers - ScienceDirect
In this chapter, I discuss antitrust policy toward horizontal mergers. Of all the areas of antitrust, this is the one that has seen the most dramatic ...
Five Principles for Vertical Merger Enforcement Policy
VERTICAL MERGERS HAVE BECOME increasingly prominent and controversial in antitrust policy-making. There seems to be consensus that the Department of ...
Antitrust Merger Policy and Innovation Competition
We caution that antitrust merger policy should not simply presume that mergers either diminish or augment innovation competi- tion. Just as ...
Two-and-a-Half Cheers for 1960s Merger Policy
Conglomerators were safe from antitrust law so long as they did not acquire dominant firms in a market adjacent to one of their existing firms ...
Mergers - European Commission - Competition Policy
The objective of merger control is to examine whether proposed mergers will have harmful effects on competition. If it is considered that a merger will not harm ...
Merger Policy and Innovation: Must Enforcement Change to Account ...
economy. The consensus about the value of innovation has spread to antitrust policy. It is now well recognized by antitrust enforcement officials.
Some Observations on the Impact of Antitrust Merger Policy on ...
Antitrust merger policy has probably increased the substantive alternatives to consumers by facilitating, directly or indirectly, lower concentration and lower ...
Contested Mergers and Equilibrium Antitrust Policy - Oxford Academic
the Agency will apply the standards of the Guidelines reasonably and flexibly to the particular facts and circumstances of each proposed mermer—1992 Merger ...