FTC Expands Economics Bureau’s Merger Retrospective Program
The Economics Bureau is expanding its merger retrospective program, the FTC announced Thursday. The bureau will address antitrust questions not “extensively studied in previous retrospective merger analyses” and will expand to analyze industries “not already studied,” it said. Initiatives include…
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an annual report on lessons from retrospective studies, the agency said. It will evaluate price pressure “measures that have been proposed for evaluating horizontal mergers, vertical mergers, and full-fledged merger simulation.” It plans to devote major conference sessions to the topic.