The 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines: From Hedgehog to Fox in Forty Years
Carl Shapiro
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
September 10, 2010
Abstract:
This paper discusses some of the economic principles underlying the revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines that were issued by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission in August 2010.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 56
Keywords: mergers, antitrust, unilateral effects, market definition
JEL Classification: L4, K21, L1
working papers series
Suggested Citation
Shapiro, Carl, The 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines: From Hedgehog to Fox in Forty Years (September 10, 2010). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1675210 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1675210
