Download This PaperThe 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines: From Hedgehog to Fox in Forty Years
56 Pages Posted: 11 Sep 2010
Date Written: 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.
Keywords: mergers, antitrust, unilateral effects, market definition
JEL Classification: L4, K21, L1
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Shapiro, Carl, The 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines: From Hedgehog to Fox in Forty Years (September 10, 2010). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1675210 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1675210
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